Nehemiah 7

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7 After the wall had been rebuilt, and I had set up its doors, and the gatekeepers, singers and L’vi’im had been appointed, ²I put my kinsman Hanani in charge of Yerushalayim, along with Hananyah the commander of the citadel. For he was a faithful man, and he feared God more than most. ³I said to them, “The gates of Yerushalayim are not to be opened until the sun is hot; and while the gatekeepers are still on duty, have them shut the doors; and you, put up the bars. Appoint watchmen from among those living in Yerushalayim; assign each one his time to guard, and have each one serving near his own house.”

⁴The city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not been rebuilt. ⁵My God put it in my heart to assemble the nobles, the leaders and the people, so that they could be registered according to their genealogies. I located the record of the genealogies of those who had come up at the beginning and found written in it:

⁶“Here is a list of the people of the province who had been exiled, carried off to Bavel by N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel, but who later returned from exile and went up to Yerushalayim and Y’hudah, each to his own city; ⁷they went with Z’rubavel, Yeshua, Nechemyah, ‘Azaryah, Ra‘amyah, Nachmani, Mordekhai, Bilshan, Misperet, Bigvai, N’chum and Ba‘anah.

“The number of men from the people of Isra’el:

⁸descendants of Par‘osh	2,172
⁹descendants of Sh’fatyah	372
¹⁰descendants of Arach	652
¹¹descendants of Pachat-Mo’av,
from the descendants of Yeshua and Yo’av	2,818
¹²descendants of ‘Eilam	1,254
¹³descendants of Zatu	845
¹⁴descendants of Zakkai	760
¹⁵descendants of Binui	648
¹⁶descendants of B’vai	628
¹⁷descendants of ‘Azgad	2,322
¹⁸descendants of Adonikam	667
¹⁹descendants of Bigvai	2,067
²⁰descendants of ‘Adin	655
²¹descendants of Ater, of Y’chizkiyah	98
²²descendants of Hashum	328
²³descendants of Betzai	324
²⁴descendants of Harif	112
²⁵descendants of Giv‘on	95
²⁶people of Beit-Lechem and N’tofah	188
²⁷people of ‘Anatot	128
²⁸people of Beit-‘Azmavet	42
²⁹people of Kiryat-Ye‘arim, K’firah and Be’erot	743
³⁰people of Ramah and Geva	621
³¹people of Mikhmas	122
³²people of Beit-El and ‘Ai	123
³³people from the other N’vo	52
³⁴people from the other ‘Eilam	1,254
³⁵descendants of Harim	320
³⁶descendants of Yericho	345
³⁷descendants of Lod, Hadid and Ono	721
³⁸descendants of S’na’ah	3,930

³⁹“The cohanim:

descendants of Y’da‘yah, of the house of Yeshua	973
⁴⁰descendants of Immer	1,052
⁴¹descendants of Pash’chur	1,247
⁴²descendants of Harim	1,017

⁴³“The L’vi’im:

descendants of Yeshua, of Kadmi’el,
of the descendants of Hodvah	74

⁴⁴“The singers:

descendants of Asaf

148

⁴⁵“The gatekeepers:

descendants of Shalum,
descendants of Ater,
descendants of Talmon,
descendants of ‘Akuv,
descendants of Hatita, and
descendants of Shovai	138

⁴⁶“The temple servants:

descendants of Tzicha,

descendants of Hasufa,

descendants of Taba‘ot,

⁴⁷descendants of Keros,

descendants of Si‘a,

descendants of Padon,

⁴⁸descendants of L’vanah,

descendants of Hagava,

descendants of Salmai,

⁴⁹descendants of Hanan,

descendants of Giddel,

descendants of Gachar,

⁵⁰descendants of Re’ayah,

descendants of Retzin,

descendants of N’koda,

⁵¹descendants of Gazam,

descendants of ‘Uza,

descendants of Paseach,

⁵²descendants of Besai,

descendants of Me‘unim,

descendants of N’fish’sim,

⁵³descendants of Bakbuk,

descendants of Hakufa,

descendants of Harhur,

⁵⁴descendants of Batzlit,

descendants of M’chida,

descendants of Harsha,

⁵⁵descendants of Barkos,

descendants of Sisra,

descendants of Temach,

⁵⁶descendants of N’tziach, and

descendants of Hatifa.

⁵⁷“The descendants of Shlomo’s servants:

descendants of Sotai,

descendants of Soferet,

descendants of P’rida,

⁵⁸descendants of Ya‘lah,

descendants of Darkon,

descendants of Giddel,

⁵⁹descendants of Sh’fatyah,

descendants of Hatil,

descendants of Pokheret-Hatzvayim, and

descendants of Amon.

⁶⁰“All the temple servants and the
descendants of Shlomo’s servants numbered	392

⁶¹“The following went up from Tel-Melach, Tel-Harsha, K’ruv, Adon and Immer; but they could not state which fathers’ clan they and their children belonged to, [so it was not clear] whether they were from Isra’el:

⁶²descendants of D’layah,
descendants of Toviyah, and
descendants of N’koda	642

⁶³and of the cohanim:

descendants of Havayah,

descendants of Hakotz, and

descendants of Barzillai, who took a wife from the
daughters of Barzillai the Gil‘adi and was named after them.

⁶⁴“These tried to locate their geneaolgical records, but they weren’t found. Therefore they were considered defiled and were not allowed to serve as cohanim. ⁶⁵The Tirshata told them not to eat any of the especially holy food until a cohen appeared who could consult the urim and tumim.

⁶⁶“The entire assembly numbered 42,360, ⁶⁷not including their male and female slaves, of whom there were 7,337. They also had 245 male and female singers. ⁶⁸Their horses numbered 736; their mules, 245; * ⁶⁹their camels, 435; and their donkeys, 6,720.

⁷⁰“Some from among the heads of fathers’ clans made contributions for the work. The Tirshata contributed to the treasury a thousand gold darkmonim [twenty-one pounds], fifty basins and 530 tunics for the cohanim. ⁷¹Some of the heads of fathers’ clans gave into the treasury for the work 20,000 gold darkmonim [420 pounds] and 2,200 silver manim [one-and-a-third tons]. ⁷²The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold darkmonim, 2,000 silver manim [about one-and-a-quarter tons] and sixty-seven tunics for the cohanim.