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Nehemiah 7
1 Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, 2 that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananyah the governor of the castle, charge over Yerushalayim; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many. 3 I said to them, Don't let the gates of Yerushalayim be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand [on guard], let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, everyone in his watch, and everyone [to be] over against his house. 4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
5 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein: 6 These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nevukhadnetztzar the king of Bavel had carried away, and who returned to Yerushalayim and to Yehudah, everyone to his city; 7 who came with Zerubbavel, Yeshua, Nechemyah, `Azaryah, Ra`amyah, Nachamani, Mordekhai, Bilshan, Misperet, Bigvai, Nechum, Ba`anah. The number of the men of the people of Yisra'el: 8 The children of Par`osh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. 9 The children of Shefatyah, three hundred seventy-two. 10 The children of Arach, six hundred fifty-two. 11 The children of Pachat-Mo'av, of the children of Yeshua and Yo'av, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen. 12 The children of `Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. 13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five. 14 The children of Zakkai, seven hundred sixty. 15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight. 16 The children of Bevai, six hundred twenty-eight. 17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two. 18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven. 19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven. 20 The children of `Adin, six hundred fifty-five. 21 The children of Ater, of Hizkiyahu, ninety-eight. 22 The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight. 23 The children of Betzai, three hundred twenty-four. 24 The children of Harif, one hundred twelve. 25 The children of Giv`on, ninety-five. 26 The men of Beit-Lechem and Netofah, one hundred eighty-eight. 27 The men of `Anatot, one hundred twenty-eight. 28 The men of Beit-`Azmavet, forty-two. 29 The men of Kiryat-Ye`arim, Kefirah, and Be'erot, seven hundred forty-three. 30 The men of Ramah and Geva, six hundred twenty-one. 31 The men of Mikhmas, one hundred and twenty-two. 32 The men of Beit-El and `Ai, a hundred twenty-three. 33 The men of the other Nevo, fifty-two. 34 The children of the other `Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. 35 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty. 36 The children of Yericho, three hundred forty-five. 37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one. 38 The children of Sena'ah, three thousand nine hundred thirty. 39 The Kohanim: The children of Yedayah, of the house of Yeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. 40 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. 41 The children of Pashchur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. 42 The children of Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen. 43 The Levites: the children of Yeshua, of Kadmi'el, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four. 44 The singers: the children of Asaf, one hundred forty-eight. 45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of `Akkuv, the children of Hatita, the children of Shovai, one hundred thirty-eight. 46 The temple servants: the children of Tzicha, the children of Hasufa, the children of Tabba`ot, 47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, 48 the children of Levanah, the children of Hagava, the children of Salmai, 49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gachar, 50 the children of Re'ayah, the children of Retzin, the children of Nekoda, 51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Pase'ach. 52 The children of Besai, the children of Me`unim, the children of Nefishesim, 53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakufa, the children of Harchur, 54 the children of Batzlit, the children of Mechida, the children of Harsha, 55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temach, 56 the children of Netzi'ach, the children of Hatifa. 57 The children of Shlomo's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Soferet, the children of Perida, 58 the children of Ya`alah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, 59 the children of Shefatyah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pokheret-Hatzevayim, the children of Amon. 60 All the temple servants, and the children of Shlomo's servants, were three hundred ninety-two. 61 These were those who went up from Tel-Melakh, Tel-Harsha, Keruv, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Yisra'el: 62 The children of Delayah, the children of Toviyah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two. 63 Of the Kohanim: the children of Havayah, the children of Hakkotz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gil`adite, and was called after their name. 64 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. 65 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a Kohen with Urim and Tummim. 66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty, 67 besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women. 68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five; 69 [their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty. 70 Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty Kohanim' garments. 71 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. 72 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven Kohanim' garments. 73 So the Kohanim, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the temple servants, and all Yisra'el, lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children of Yisra'el were in their cities.
