¹These now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

²They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included

³Parosh’s descendants — 2,172

⁴Shephatiah’s descendants — 372

⁵Arah’s descendants — 775

⁶Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants — 2,812

⁷Elam’s descendants — 1,254

⁸Zattu’s descendants — 945

⁹Zaccai’s descendants — 760

¹⁰Bani’s descendants — 642

¹¹Bebai’s descendants — 623

¹²Azgad’s descendants — 1,222

¹³Adonikam’s descendants — 666

¹⁴Bigvai’s descendants — 2,056

¹⁵Adin’s descendants — 454

¹⁶Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah — 98

¹⁷Bezai’s descendants — 323

¹⁸Jorah’s descendants — 112

¹⁹Hashum’s descendants — 223

²⁰Gibbar’s descendants — 95

²¹Bethlehem’s people — 123

²²Netophah’s men — 56

²³Anathoth’s men — 128

²⁴Azmaveth’s people — 42

²⁵Kiriatharim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s people — 743

²⁶Ramah’s and Geba’s people — 621

²⁷Michmas’s men — 122

²⁸Bethel’s and Ai’s men — 223

²⁹Nebo’s people — 52

³⁰Magbish’s people — 156

³¹the other Elam’s people — 1,254

³²Harim’s people — 320

³³Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people — 725

³⁴Jericho’s people — 345

³⁵Senaah’s people — 3,630

³⁶The priests included Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua — 973

³⁷Immer’s descendants — 1,052

³⁸Pashhur’s descendants — 1,247

³⁹and Harim’s descendants — 1,017

⁴⁰The Levites included Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants from Hodaviah’s descendants — 74

⁴¹The singers included Asaph’s descendants — 128

⁴²The gatekeepers’ descendants included Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants, in all — 139

⁴³The temple servants included Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants, Tabbaoth’s descendants,

⁴⁴Keros’s descendants, Siaha’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,

⁴⁵Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants,

⁴⁶Hagab’s descendants, Shalmai’s descendants, Hanan’s descendants,

⁴⁷Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants, Reaiah’s descendants,

⁴⁸Rezin’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,

⁴⁹Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants, Besai’s descendants,

⁵⁰Asnah’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants, Nephusim’s descendants,

⁵¹Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,

⁵²Bazluth’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,

⁵³Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,

⁵⁴Neziah’s descendants, and Hatipha’s descendants.

⁵⁵The descendants of Solomon’s servants included Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants, Peruda’s descendants,

⁵⁶Jaalah’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,

⁵⁷Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants.

⁵⁸All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants — 392.

⁵⁹The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their ancestral families and their lineage were Israelite:

⁶⁰Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants — 652

⁶¹and from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai — who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and who bore their name.

⁶²These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.

⁶³The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.

⁶⁴The whole combined assembly numbered — 42,360

⁶⁵not including their 7,337 male and female servants, and their 200 male and female singers.

⁶⁶They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

⁶⁷435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

⁶⁸After they arrived at the LORD’s house in Jerusalem, some of the family heads gave freewill offerings for the house of God in order to have it rebuilt on its original site.

⁶⁹Based on what they could give, they gave 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 priestly garments to the treasury for the project.

⁷⁰The priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, and some of the people settled in their towns, and the rest of Israel settled in their towns.