Nehemiah 7

¹Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, ²I gave my brother Hanaʹni and Hananiʹah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. ³And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are still standing guard let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each to his station and each opposite his own house.” ⁴The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few and no houses had been built.

⁵Then God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

⁶These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezʹzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town. ⁷They came with Zerubʹbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiʹah, Azariʹah, Raamiʹah, Nahamʹani, Morʹdecai, Bilshan, Misʹpereth, Bigʹvai, Nehum, Baʹanah.

The number of the men of the people of Israel: ⁸the sons of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy-two. ⁹The sons of Shephatiʹah, three hundred and seventy-two. ¹⁰The sons of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two. ¹¹The sons of Paʹhath-moʹab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joʹab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen. ¹²The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four. ¹³The sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five. ¹⁴The sons of Zacʹcai, seven hundred and sixty. ¹⁵The sons of Binʹnui, six hundred and forty-eight. ¹⁶The sons of Beʹbai, six hundred and twenty-eight. ¹⁷The sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two. ¹⁸The sons of Adoniʹkam, six hundred and sixty-seven. ¹⁹The sons of Bigʹvai, two thousand and sixty-seven. ²⁰The sons of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five. ²¹The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiʹah, ninety-eight. ²²The sons of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight. ²³The sons of Beʹzai, three hundred and twenty-four. ²⁴The sons of Hariph, a hundred and twelve. ²⁵The sons of Gibeon, ninety-five. ²⁶The men of Bethlehem and Netoʹphah, a hundred and eighty-eight. ²⁷The men of Anʹathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight. ²⁸The men of Beth-azʹmaveth, forty-two. ²⁹The men of Kirʹiath-jeʹarim, Chephiʹrah, and Be-erʹoth, seven hundred and forty-three. ³⁰The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one. ³¹The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two. ³²The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three. ³³The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two. ³⁴The sons of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four. ³⁵The sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty. ³⁶The sons of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five. ³⁷The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one. ³⁸The sons of Senaʹah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

³⁹The priests: the sons of Jedaiʹah, namely the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three. ⁴⁰The sons of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two. ⁴¹The sons of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred and forty-seven. ⁴²The sons of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

⁴³The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, namely of Kadʹmi-el of the sons of Hoʹdevah, seventy-four. ⁴⁴The singers: the sons of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight. ⁴⁵The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatiʹta, the sons of Shoʹbai, a hundred and thirty-eight.

⁴⁶The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasuʹpha, the sons of Tabbaʹoth, ⁴⁷the sons of Keros, the sons of Siʹa, the sons of Padon, ⁴⁸the sons of Lebaʹna, the sons of Hagʹaba, the sons of Shalmai, ⁴⁹the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, ⁵⁰the sons of Re-aiʹah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoʹda, ⁵¹the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseʹah, ⁵²the sons of Besai, the sons of Me-uʹnim, the sons of Nephushʹesim, ⁵³the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakuʹpha, the sons of Harhur, ⁵⁴the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehiʹda, the sons of Harsha, ⁵⁵the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisʹera, the sons of Temah, ⁵⁶the sons of Neziʹah, the sons of Hatiʹpha.

⁵⁷The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Soʹtai, the sons of Soʹphereth, the sons of Periʹda, ⁵⁸the sons of Jaʹala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, ⁵⁹the sons of Shephatiʹah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Poʹchereth-hazzebaʹim, the sons of Amon.

⁶⁰All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

⁶¹The following were those who came up from Tel-meʹlah, Tel-harʹsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers’ houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel: ⁶²the sons of Delaiʹah, the sons of Tobiʹah, the sons of Nekoʹda, six hundred and forty-two. ⁶³Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiʹah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzilʹlai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzilʹlai the Gileadite and was called by their name). ⁶⁴These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean; ⁶⁵the governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.

⁶⁶The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, ⁶⁷besides their menservants and maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five singers, male and female. ⁶⁸Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five, ⁶⁹their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and their asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

⁷⁰Now some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments. ⁷¹And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver. ⁷²And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.

⁷³So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns.

And when the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their towns.