Nehemiah 7:4-6

Common English Bible

Nehemiah registers the families

⁴Now although the city was wide and large, only a few people were living within it, and no^[a] houses had been rebuilt. ⁵My God then prompted me to assemble the officials, the officers, and the people so that they could be registered by families. I found the record of the families who were the first to return, and I found the following written in it:

⁶These are the people of the province who returned from the captivity of those exiles whom Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile. They all returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to their own town.

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