Ezra 2:1-14

1These were the people in the province. They were the ones who left the place where the exiles had been taken captive. (King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken them to Babylon.) These exiles returned to Jerusalem and Judah. All of them went to their own cities.

2They went with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the number of Israelite men from the people in exile:

3the descendants of Parosh … 2,172

4of Shephatiah … 372

5of Arah … 775

6of Pahath Moab, that is, of Jeshua and Joab … 2,812

7of Elam … 1,254

8of Zattu … 945

9of Zaccai … 760

10of Bani … 642

11of Bebai … 623

12of Azgad … 1,222

13of Adonikam … 666

14of Bigvai … 2,056