Nehemiah 7:4-69

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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.

⁷They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.

The number of the people of Israel:

⁸The family of Parosh	2,172
⁹of Shephatiah	372
¹⁰of Arah	652
¹¹of Pahath-moab, that is, of the descendants of Jeshua and Joab	2,818
¹²of Elam	1,254
¹³of Zattu	845
¹⁴of Zaccai	760
¹⁵of Binnui	648
¹⁶of Bebai	628
¹⁷of Azgad	2,322
¹⁸of Adonikam	667
¹⁹of Bigvai	2,067
²⁰of Adin	655
²¹of Ater, that is, of the descendants of Hezekiah	98
²²of Hashum	328
²³of Bezai	324
²⁴of Hariph	112
²⁵of Gibeon	95
²⁶The people of Bethlehem and Netophah	188
²⁷of Anathoth	128
²⁸of Beth-azmaveth	42
²⁹of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth	743
³⁰of Ramah and Geba	621
³¹of Michmas	122
³²of Bethel and Ai	123
³³of the other Nebo	52
³⁴the inhabitants of the other Elam	1,254
³⁵of Harim	320
³⁶of Jericho	345
³⁷of Lod, Hadid, and Ono	721
³⁸of Senaah	3,930
³⁹The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah, that is, of the house of Jeshua	973
⁴⁰of Immer	1,052
⁴¹of Pashhur	1,247
⁴²of Harim	1,017
⁴³The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua, that is, of Kadmiel, of the descendants of Hodaviah	74
⁴⁴The singers: the descendants of Asaph	148
⁴⁵The descendants of gatekeepers: of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai	138

⁴⁶The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,

⁴⁷Keros, Sia, Padon,

⁴⁸Lebanah, Hagabah, Shalmai,

⁴⁹Hanan, Giddel, Gahar,

⁵⁰Reaiah, Rezin, Nekoda,

⁵¹Gazzam, Uzza, Paseah,

⁵²Besai, Meunim, Nephushesim,

⁵³Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur,

⁵⁴Bazlith, Mehida, Harsha,

⁵⁵Barkos, Sisera, Temah,

⁵⁶Neziah, and Hatipha.

⁵⁷The descendants of Solomon’s servants: Sotai, Sophereth, Perida,

⁵⁸Jaala, Darkon, Giddel, ⁵⁹Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth-hazzebaim, and Amon.

⁶⁰All of the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants totaled 392.

⁶¹The following came up from Tel-Melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but were unable to prove that their family or their descent was from Israel:

⁶²the descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, 642.

⁶³And of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai (who had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by his^[b] name) ⁶⁴looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they weren’t found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

⁶⁵The governor ordered that they shouldn’t eat of the most holy food until a priest arose who could consult Urim and Thummim.

⁶⁶The whole assembly together totaled 42,360. ⁶⁷This number doesn’t include their 7,337 male and female servants; they also had 245 male and female singers, ⁶⁸736 horses, 245 mules,^[c] ⁶⁹^[d] 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

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