¹It happened, when the wall had been rebuilt and I had set up the doors, that the gatekeepers and those who sing and the Levites were appointed.

²I gave charge to Hanani my brother, and to Hananiah the official of the citadel, over Jerusalem, for he was like a man of stability and feared God more than many.

³I said to them, The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is warm; and while they are still standing, let them shut the doors and hold them fast. And appoint watches of those who dwelled in Jerusalem, each man at his guard post and each man before his house.

⁴The city was wide on both hands and great, but the people in its midst were few, and there were no houses built.

⁵My God put it into my heart, and I gathered together the nobles and the officials and the people to have themselves enrolled by genealogy. And I found the document of the genealogy of those who came up at first, and I found written in it:

⁶These are the children of the province who came up from the captivity of the exile, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile, and they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each man to his city,

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

⁸The children of Parosh: two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

⁹The children of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy-two.

¹⁰The children of Arah: six hundred fifty-two.

¹¹The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred eighteen.

¹²The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

¹³The children of Zattu: eight hundred forty-five.

¹⁴The children of Zaccai: seven hundred sixty.

¹⁵The children of Binnui: six hundred forty-eight.

¹⁶The children of Bebai: six hundred twenty-eight.

¹⁷The children of Azgad: two thousand three hundred twenty-two.

¹⁸The children of Adonikam: six hundred sixty-seven.

¹⁹The children of Bigvai: two thousand sixty-seven.

²⁰The children of Adin: six hundred fifty-five.

²¹The children of Ater, of Hezekiah: ninety-eight.

²²The children of Hashum: three hundred twenty-eight.

²³The children of Bezai: three hundred twenty-four.

²⁴The children of Hariph: one hundred twelve.

²⁵The children of Gibeon: ninety-five.

²⁶The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah: one hundred eighty-eight.

²⁷The men of Anathoth: one hundred twenty-eight.

²⁸The men of Beth-Azmaveth: forty-two.

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

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

³¹The men of Micmash: one hundred twenty-two.

³²The men of Beth-el and Ai: one hundred twenty-three.

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

³⁴The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

³⁵The children of Harim: three hundred twenty.

³⁶The children of Jericho: three hundred forty-five.

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

³⁸The children of Senaah: three thousand nine hundred thirty.

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

⁴⁰The children of Immer: one thousand fifty-two.

⁴¹The children of Pashhur: one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

⁴²The children of Harim: one thousand seventeen.

⁴³The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah: seventy-four.

⁴⁴Those who sing: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.

⁴⁵The gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.

⁴⁶The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

⁴⁷the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

⁴⁸the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Shalmai,

⁴⁹the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

⁵⁰the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

⁵¹the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzzah, the children of Paseah,

⁵²the children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephissim,

⁵³the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

⁵⁴the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

⁵⁵the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

⁵⁶the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

⁵⁷The children of the servants of Solomon: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

⁵⁸the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

⁵⁹the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pokereth-Hazzebaim, the children of Amon.

⁶⁰All the Nethinim and the children of the slaves of Solomon were three hundred ninety and two.

⁶¹And these are those who came up from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not tell the house of their fathers and their seed, whether they were from Israel:

⁶²the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

⁶³And from the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.

⁶⁴These sought their register among those who had themselves enrolled by genealogy, and it was not found; and they were defiled out of the priesthood.

⁶⁵And the governor said to them that they must not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim.

⁶⁶All the company as one was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

⁶⁷besides their slaves and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven; and they had men who sang and women who sang, two hundred.

⁶⁸Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

⁶⁹camels, four hundred thirty and five; donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

⁷⁰And some of the heads of the fathers gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand gold drachmas, fifty bowls, and five hundred thirty tunics of the priests.

⁷¹And some of the heads of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold drachmas and two thousand two hundred silver minas.

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

⁷³The priests and the Levites and the gatekeepers and those who sing and some of the people and the Nethinim and all Israel dwelled in their cities. And when the seventh month arrived, the children of Israel were in their cities.