Nehemiah 7:4-6

New King James Version

The Captives Who Returned to Jerusalem^(A)

⁴ Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were ^(B)few, and the houses were not rebuilt. ⁵ Then my God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up in the first return, and found written in it: