Nehemiah 7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Exiles Return

¹ When the wall had been rebuilt and I had the doors installed,  the gatekeepers,  singers, and Levites were appointed.

² Then I put my brother Hanani  in charge of Jerusalem,  along with Hananiah,  commander of the fortress,  because he was a faithful man who feared God  more than most.

³ I said to them, ‘Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot, and let the doors be shut and securely fastened while the guards are on duty. Station the citizens of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some at their homes.’

⁴ The city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and no houses had been built yet.

⁵ Then my God put it into my mind  to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it:

⁶ These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar  of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.

⁷ They came with Zerubbabel,  Jeshua,  Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included

⁸ Parosh’s descendants  2,172

⁹ Shephatiah’s descendants 372

¹⁰ Arah’s descendants 652

¹¹ Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,818

¹² Elam’s descendants 1,254

¹³ Zattu’s descendants 845

¹⁴ Zaccai’s descendants 760

¹⁵ Binnui’s descendants 648

¹⁶ Bebai’s descendants 628

¹⁷ Azgad’s descendants 2,322

¹⁸ Adonikam’s descendants  667

¹⁹ Bigvai’s descendants 2,067

²⁰ Adin’s descendants  655

²¹ Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah 98

²² Hashum’s descendants 328

²³ Bezai’s descendants 324

²⁴ Hariph’s descendants 112

²⁵ Gibeon’s   descendants 95

²⁶ Bethlehem’s  and Netophah’s  men 188

²⁷ Anathoth’s   men 128

²⁸ Beth-azmaveth’s men 42

²⁹ Kiriath-jearim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s men 743

³⁰ Ramah’s and Geba’s men 621

³¹ Michmas’s men 122

³² Bethel’s and Ai’s men  123

³³ the other Nebo’s men 52

³⁴ the other Elam’s people 1,254

³⁵ Harim’s people 320

³⁶ Jericho’s people  345

³⁷ Lod’s,  Hadid’s, and Ono’s people 721

³⁸ Senaah’s people 3,930.

³⁹ The priests included Jedaiah’s   descendants of the house of Jeshua 973

⁴⁰ Immer’s descendants 1,052

⁴¹ Pashhur’s descendants 1,247

⁴² Harim’s descendants 1,017.

⁴³ The Levites  included Jeshua’s descendants: of Kadmiel Hodevah’s descendants 74. .

⁴⁴ The singers  included Asaph’s descendants 148.

⁴⁵ The gatekeepers  included Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants 138.

⁴⁶ The temple servants  included Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants, Tabbaoth’s descendants,

⁴⁷ Keros’s descendants, Sia’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,

⁴⁸ Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants, Shalmai’s descendants,

⁴⁹ Hanan’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,

⁵⁰ Reaiah’s descendants, Rezin’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants,

⁵¹ Gazzam’s descendants, Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,

⁵² Besai’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants, Nephishesim’s   descendants,

⁵³ Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,

⁵⁴ Bazlith’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,

⁵⁵ Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,

⁵⁶ Neziah’s descendants, Hatipha’s descendants.

⁵⁷ The descendants of Solomon’s servants  included Sotai’s descendants, Sophereth’s descendants, Perida’s descendants,

⁵⁸ Jaala’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,

⁵⁹ Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, Amon’s descendants.

⁶⁰ All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants  392.

⁶¹ The following  are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but were unable to prove that their ancestral families  and their lineage were Israelite:

⁶² Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, and Nekoda’s descendants 642

⁶³ and from the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai #– #who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and who bore their name.

⁶⁴ These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.

⁶⁵ The governor  ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.

⁶⁶ The whole combined assembly numbered 42,360

⁶⁷ not including their 7,337 male and female servants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.

⁶⁸ They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

⁶⁹ 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

⁷⁰ Some of the family heads contributed to the project. The governor gave 1,000 gold coins,  50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments to the treasury.

⁷¹ Some of the family heads gave 20,000 gold coins and 2,200 silver minas to the treasury for the project.

⁷² The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold coins, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.

⁷³ The priests, Levites, gatekeepers, temple singers, some of the people, temple servants, and all Israel settled in their towns. When the seventh month  came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,