Nehemiah

7 And it came about that, as soon as the wall had been rebuilt,+ I at once set up the doors.+ Then there were appointed the gatekeepers+ and the singers+ and the Levites.+ 2 And I went on to put in command of Jerusalem Ha·naʹni+ my brother and Han·a·niʹah the prince of the Castle,+ for he was such a trustworthy+ man* and feared+ the [true] God more than many others. 3 So I* said to them: “The gates+ of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun gets hot; and while they are standing by they should shut the doors and bolt [them].+ And station* guards of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each one at his own guardpost and each one in front of his own house.”+ 4 Now the city was wide* and great, and there were few people inside it,+ and there were no houses built.

5 But my God put [it] into my heart+ that I should collect together the nobles and the deputy rulers and the people to get themselves enrolled genealogically.+ Then I found the book of genealogical enrollment+ of those who came up at the first, and found written in it:

6 These are the sons of the jurisdictional district*+ who came up out of the captivity+ of the exiled people whom Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar+ the king of Babylon* had taken into exile+ and who later returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city;+ 7 those who came in with Ze·rubʹba·bel,+ Jeshʹu·a,*+ Ne·he·miʹah, Az·a·riʹah,* Ra·a·miʹah,* Na·hamʹa·ni, Morʹde·cai,+ Bilʹshan, Misʹpe·reth,* Bigʹvai, Neʹhum,* Baʹa·nah.

The number of the men of the people of Israel: 8 The sons of Paʹrosh,+ two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; 9 the sons of Sheph·a·tiʹah,+ three hundred and seventy-two; 10 the sons of Aʹrah,+ six hundred and fifty-two; 11 the sons of Paʹhath-moʹab,+ of the sons of Jeshʹu·a and Joʹab,+ two thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 12 the sons of Eʹlam,+ a thousand two hundred and fifty-four; 13 the sons of Zatʹtu,+ eight hundred and forty-five; 14 the sons of Zacʹcai,+ seven hundred and sixty; 15 the sons of Binʹnu·i,+ six hundred and forty-eight; 16 the sons of Beʹbai,+ six hundred and twenty-eight; 17 the sons of Azʹgad,+ two thousand three hundred and twenty-two; 18 the sons of Ad·o·niʹkam,+ six hundred and sixty-seven; 19 the sons of Bigʹvai,+ two thousand and sixty-seven; 20 the sons of Aʹdin,+ six hundred and fifty-five; 21 the sons of Aʹter,+ of Hez·e·kiʹah, ninety-eight; 22 the sons of Haʹshum,+ three hundred and twenty-eight; 23 the sons of Beʹzai,+ three hundred and twenty-four; 24 the sons of Haʹriph,+ a hundred and twelve; 25 the sons of Gibʹe·on,+ ninety-five; 26 the men of Bethʹle·hem+ and Ne·toʹphah,+ a hundred and eighty-eight; 27 the men of Anʹa·thoth,+ a hundred and twenty-eight; 28 the men of Beth-azʹma·veth,+ forty-two; 29 the men of Kirʹi·ath-jeʹa·rim,+ Che·phiʹrah+ and Be·erʹoth,+ seven hundred and forty-three; 30 the men of Raʹmah+ and Geʹba,+ six hundred and twenty-one; 31 the men of Michʹmas,+ a hundred and twenty-two; 32 the men of Bethʹel+ and Aʹi,+ a hundred and twenty-three; 33 the men of the other Neʹbo,+ fifty-two; 34 the sons of the other Eʹlam,+ a thousand two hundred and fifty-four; 35 the sons of Haʹrim,+ three hundred and twenty; 36 the sons of Jerʹi·cho,+ three hundred and forty-five; 37 the sons of Lod,+ Haʹdid+ and Oʹno,+ seven hundred and twenty-one; 38 the sons of Se·naʹah,+ three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

39 The priests: The sons of Je·daʹiah+ of the house of Jeshʹu·a, nine hundred and seventy-three; 40 the sons of Imʹmer,+ a thousand and fifty-two; 41 the sons of Pashʹhur,+ a thousand two hundred and forty-seven; 42 the sons of Haʹrim,+ a thousand and seventeen.

43 The Levites: The sons of Jeshʹu·a, of Kadʹmi·el,+ of the sons of Hoʹde·vah,+ seventy-four. 44 The singers,+ the sons of Aʹsaph,+ a hundred and forty-eight. 45 The gatekeepers,+ the sons of Shalʹlum,+ the sons of Aʹter, the sons of Talʹmon,+ the sons of Akʹkub,+ the sons of Ha·tiʹta, the sons of Shoʹbai,+ a hundred and thirty-eight.

46 The Nethʹi·nim:*+ The sons of Ziʹha, the sons of Ha·suʹpha, the sons of Tab·baʹoth,+ 47 the sons of Keʹros, the sons of Siʹa,* the sons of Paʹdon,+ 48 the sons of Le·baʹnah, the sons of Hagʹa·bah,+ the sons of Salʹmai, 49 the sons of Haʹnan,+ the sons of Gidʹdel, the sons of Gaʹhar, 50 the sons of Re·aʹiah,+ the sons of Reʹzin,+ the sons of Ne·koʹda, 51 the sons of Gazʹzam, the sons of Uzʹza, the sons of Pa·seʹah, 52 the sons of Beʹsai,+ the sons of Me·uʹnim, the sons of Ne·phushʹe·sim,*+ 53 the sons of Bakʹbuk, the sons of Ha·kuʹpha, the sons of Harʹhur,+ 54 the sons of Bazʹlith,* the sons of Me·hiʹda, the sons of Harʹsha,+ 55 the sons of Barʹkos, the sons of Sisʹe·ra, the sons of Teʹmah,+ 56 the sons of Ne·ziʹah, the sons of Ha·tiʹpha.+

57 The sons of the servants of Solʹo·mon:+ The sons of Soʹtai, the sons of So·pheʹreth, the sons of Pe·riʹda,*+ 58 the sons of Jaʹa·la, the sons of Darʹkon, the sons of Gidʹdel,+ 59 the sons of Sheph·a·tiʹah, the sons of Hatʹtil, the sons of Poʹche·reth-haz·ze·baʹim, the sons of Aʹmon.*+ 60 All the Nethʹi·nim+ and the sons of the servants of Solʹo·mon were three hundred and ninety-two.

61 And these were the ones going up from Tel-meʹlah, Tel-harʹsha, Cheʹrub, Adʹdon and Imʹmer,+ and they were not able to tell the house of their fathers and their origin,* whether they were of Israel: 62 the sons of De·laʹiah, the sons of To·biʹah, the sons of Ne·koʹda,+ six hundred and forty-two. 63 And of the priests:+ the sons of Ha·baiʹah, the sons of Hakʹkoz,+ the sons of Bar·zilʹlai,+ who took a wife from the daughters of Bar·zilʹlai+ the Gilʹe·ad·ite and came to be called by their name. 64 These were the ones that looked for their register, to establish their genealogy publicly, and it was not found,+ so that they were barred as polluted from the priesthood.+ 65 Consequently the Tir·shaʹtha*+ said to them that they should not eat+ from the most holy things until the priest with Uʹrim+ and Thumʹmim+ stood up.

66 The entire congregation as one group was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,+ 67 apart from their men slaves+ and their slave girls, these being seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven;+ and they had two hundred and forty-five* male+ singers and female+ singers. [68 Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five.]*+ 69 The camels were four hundred and thirty-five. The asses+ were six thousand seven hundred and twenty.+

70 And there was a part of the heads+ of the paternal+ houses that gave to the work.+ The Tir·shaʹtha+ himself gave to the treasure a thousand gold drachmas,* fifty bowls, five hundred and thirty priests’ robes.+ 71 And there were some of the heads of the paternal houses that gave to the treasure for the work twenty thousand gold drachmas and two thousand two hundred silver miʹnas.*+ 72 And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold drachmas and two thousand silver miʹnas and sixty-seven priests’ robes.

73 And the priests+ and the Levites and the gatekeepers and the singers+ and some of the people and the Nethʹi·nim+ and all Israel took up dwelling in their cities.+ When the seventh month arrived,+ the sons of Israel were then in their cities.+