Nehemiah 7:1-73
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.+
Footnotes
^ Or, “a man of truth.”
^ “Station,” MLXX; Vg and one Heb. ms, “I stationed.”
^ Lit., “wide on both sides,” that is, spacious.
^ “Jurisdictional district.” Lat., pro·vinʹci·ae.
^ “Babylon,” LXXVg; MSy, “Babel.”
^ “Jesus,” LXX.
^ Lit., “seed.”
^ The Persian title for a governor of a jurisdictional district.
^ A drachma was generally equated with the Persian gold daric that weighed 8.4 g (0.27 oz t). Not the drachma of the Greek Scriptures. See App 8A.
^ A mina weighed 570 g (18.35 oz t). Not the mina of the Greek Scriptures.
