Nehemiah 7
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Nehemiah 7:5-38

5Then 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:

6These 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.

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

8Parosh’s descendants 2,172

9Shephatiah’s descendants 372

10Arah’s descendants 652

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

12Elam’s descendants 1,254

13Zattu’s descendants 845

14Zaccai’s descendants 760

15Binnui’s descendants 648

16Bebai’s descendants 628

17Azgad’s descendants 2,322

18Adonikam’s descendants 667

19Bigvai’s descendants 2,067

20Adin’s descendants 655

21Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah 98

22Hashum’s descendants 328

23Bezai’s descendants 324

24Hariph’s descendants 112

25Gibeon’sdescendants 95

26Bethlehem’sand Netophah’smen 188

27Anathoth’smen 128

28Beth-azmaveth’s men 42

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

30Ramah’s and Geba’s men 621

31Michmas’s men 122

32Bethel’s and Ai’s men 123

33the other Nebo’s men 52

34the other Elam’s people 1,254

35Harim’s people 320

36Jericho’s people 345

37Lod’s,Hadid’s, and Ono’s people 721

38Senaah’s people 3,930.

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