Nehemiah 7:4-6

New American Standard Bible

⁴ Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were few and the houses were not built.

^5 (A)Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the other people to be enrolled by genealogies. Then I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up first, ^[a]in which I found the following record:

^6 (B)These are the ^[b]people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had taken into exile, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city,