¹ Now when the wall had been built and I had erected the doors and appointed the gatekeepers, singers, and the Levites,

² I gave command over Jerusalem to my brother Hanani and Hananiah the commander of the citadel. For he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.

³ I said to them, “Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While they are standing guard let them shut and fasten the doors. And appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his post and another opposite his house.”

⁴ The city was widespread and large, but the people in it were few and no houses were rebuilt.

Lists of the Exiles Who Returned

⁵ Then my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, the prefects, and the people to be enrolled. I found the book of the genealogy of those who first came back, and I found this written upon it:

⁶ These are the people of the province who came up from captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his city.

⁷ These came with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

⁸ the descendants¹ of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two.

1. Or “sons”

⁹ The descendants¹ of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.

1. Or “sons”

¹⁰ The descendants¹ of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two.

1. Or “sons”

¹¹ The descendants¹ of Pahath-Moab, of the descendants² of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”

¹² The descendants¹ of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

1. Or “sons”

¹³ The descendants¹ of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five.

1. Or “sons”

¹⁴ The descendants¹ of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.

1. Or “sons”

¹⁵ The descendants¹ of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight.

1. Or “sons”

¹⁶ The descendants¹ of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight.

1. Or “sons”

¹⁷ The descendants¹ of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two.

1. Or “sons”

¹⁸ The descendants¹ of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven.

1. Or “sons”

¹⁹ The descendants¹ of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven.

1. Or “sons”

²⁰ The descendants¹ of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five.

1. Or “sons”

²¹ The descendants¹ of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

1. Or “sons”

²² The descendants¹ of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight.

1. Or “sons”

²³ The descendants¹ of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four.

1. Or “sons”

²⁴ The descendants¹ of Hariph, one hundred and twelve.

1. Or “sons”

²⁵ The descendants¹ of Gibeon, ninety-five.

1. Or “sons”

²⁶ The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight.

²⁷ The men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight.

²⁸ The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.

²⁹ The men of Kiriath-Jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.

³⁰ The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.

³¹ The men of Micmash, one hundred and twenty-two.

³² The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three.

³³ The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.

³⁴ The people¹ of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

1. Or “sons”

³⁵ The people¹ of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

1. Or “sons”

³⁶ The people¹ of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.

1. Or “sons”

³⁷ The people¹ of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.

1. Or “sons”

³⁸ The people¹ of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

1. Or “sons”

³⁹ The priests: The descendants¹ of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

1. Or “sons”

⁴⁰ The descendants¹ of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two.

1. Or “sons”

⁴¹ The descendants¹ of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven.

1. Or “sons”

⁴² The descendants¹ of Harim, one thousand and seventeen.

1. Or “sons”

⁴³ The Levites: the descendants¹ of Jeshua, namely of Kadmiel of the descendants² of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”

⁴⁴ The singers: the descendants¹ of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight.

1. Or “sons”

⁴⁵ The gatekeepers: the descendants¹ of Shallum, the descendants² of Ater, the descendants³ of Talmon, the descendants⁴ of Akkub, the descendants⁵ of Hatita, the descendants⁶ of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight.

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”
4. Or “sons”
5. Or “sons”
6. Or “sons”

⁴⁶ The temple servants: the descendants¹ of Ziha, the descendants² of Hasupha, the descendants³ of Tabbaoth,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁴⁷ the descendants¹ of Keros, the descendants² of Siaha, the descendants³ of Padon,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁴⁸ the descendants¹ of Lebanah, the descendants² of Hagaba, the descendants³ of Shalmai,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁴⁹ the descendants¹ of Hanan, the descendants² of Giddel, the descendants³ of Gahar,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁵⁰ the descendants¹ of Reaiah, the descendants² of Rezin, the descendants³ of Nekoda,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁵¹ the descendants¹ of Gazzam, the descendants² of Uzza, the descendants³ of Paseah,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁵² the descendants¹ of Besai, the descendants² of Meunim, the descendants³ of Nephushesim,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁵³ the descendants¹ of Bakbuk, the descendants² of Hakupha, the descendants³ of Harhur,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁵⁴ the descendants¹ of Bazlith, the descendants² of Mehida, the descendants³ of Harsha,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁵⁵ the descendants¹ of Barkos, the descendants² of Sisera, the descendants³ of Temah,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁵⁶ the descendants¹ of Neziah, the descendants² of Hatipha.

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”

⁵⁷ The descendants¹ of Solomon’s servants: the descendants² of Sotai, the descendants³ of Sophereth, the descendants⁴ of Perida,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”
4. Or “sons”

⁵⁸ the descendants¹ of Jaala, the descendants² of Darkon, the descendants³ of Giddel,

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁵⁹ the descendants¹ of Shephatiah, the descendants² of Hattil, the descendants³ of Pochereth-Hazzebaim, the descendants⁴ of Amon.

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”
4. Or “sons”

⁶⁰ All the temple servants and the descendants¹ of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

1. Or “sons”

⁶¹ These were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their ancestral houses or their descent, whether they were from Israel:

⁶² the descendants¹ of Delaiah, the descendants² of Tobiah, the descendants³ of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁶³ And from the priests: the descendants¹ of Hobaiah, the descendants² of Hakkoz, the descendants³ of Barzillai (who had taken as a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).

1. Or “sons”
2. Or “sons”
3. Or “sons”

⁶⁴ These sought their record among those enrolled in the genealogy, but it was not found there, so they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood.

⁶⁵ So the governor said to them that they could not eat the most holy food until a priest could come with Urim and Thummim.

⁶⁶ All of the assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

⁶⁷ besides their servants and female slaves—these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And the male and female singers were two hundred and forty-five,¹

1. After this verse, some versions add verse 68: “Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules two hundred and forty-five”; compare Ezra 2:66

^{69 1} there were four hundred and thirty-five camels and six thousand seven hundred and twenty male donkeys.

1. Nehemiah 7:69–73 in the English Bible is 7:68–72 in the Hebrew Bible

⁷⁰ Now some from the heads of the ⌞families⌟¹ gave to the work. The governor gave to the storehouse one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly tunics.

1. Literally “fathers”

⁷¹ Now some of the heads of the ⌞families⌟¹ gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas.

1. Literally “fathers”

⁷² And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics.

⁷³ So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month came, the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ were in their cities.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”