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Version 0.33.105, 15 February 2024

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Nehemiah Chapter 7

1And it came to pass when the wall was built that I installed the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed. 2And I assigned Hanani my brother, and Hananiah the official in charge of the citadel, to be in charge of Jerusalem, for the latter was very much a man of truth, and he feared God more than many. 3And I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem shall not be opened until the heat of the sun, and while the gatekeepers are standing by, let them shut the doors and fasten them.” And I set up watches from the inhabitants of Jerusalem – each man in his watch, and each man opposite his house. 4Now the city was very wide and large, but the people in it were few, and there were no houses built. 5Then my God put it in my heart that I should assemble the nobles and the administrators and the people to be registered by genealogy, and I found the book of genealogy of those who had come up previously, and I found this written in it: 6“The following are the fraternity of the province who came back up from the displaced body of deportees whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon deported, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city. 7Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum and Baanah. The number of men of the people of Israel was as follows: 8the fraternity of Parosh numbered two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; 9the fraternity of Shephatiah numbered three hundred and seventy-two; 10the fraternity of Arah numbered six hundred and fifty-two; 11the fraternity of Pahath-Moab, of the line of the fraternity of Jeshua-Joab, numbered two thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 12the fraternity of Elam numbered one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; 13the fraternity of Zattu numbered eight hundred and forty-five; 14the fraternity of Zaccai numbered seven hundred and sixty; 15the fraternity of Binnui numbered six hundred and forty-eight; 16the fraternity of Bebai numbered six hundred and twenty-eight; 17the fraternity of Azgad numbered two thousand three hundred and twenty-two; 18the fraternity of Adonikam numbered six hundred and sixty-seven; 19the fraternity of Bigvai numbered two thousand and sixty-seven; 20the fraternity of Adin numbered six hundred and fifty-five; 21the fraternity of Ater, of Hezekiah's line, numbered ninety-eight; 22the fraternity of Hashum numbered three hundred and twenty-eight; 23the fraternity of Bezai numbered three hundred and twenty-four; 24the fraternity of Hariph numbered one hundred and twelve; 25the fraternity of Gibeon numbered ninety-five; 26the men of Bethlehem and Netophah numbered one hundred and eighty-eight; 27the men of Anathoth numbered one hundred and twenty-eight; 28the men of Beth-Azmaveth numbered forty-two; 29the men of Kiriath-Jearim, Chephirah and Beeroth numbered seven hundred and forty-three; 30the men of Ramah and Geba numbered six hundred and twenty-one; 31the men of Michmas numbered one hundred and twenty-two; 32the men of Beth-El and Ai numbered one hundred and twenty-three; 33the men of the other Nebo numbered fifty-two; 34the fraternity of the other Elam numbered one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; 35the fraternity of Harim numbered three hundred and twenty; 36the fraternity of Jericho numbered three hundred and forty-five; 37the fraternity of Lod, Hadid and Ono numbered seven hundred and twenty-one; 38the fraternity of Senaah numbered three thousand nine hundred and thirty; 39the priests who were the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, numbered nine hundred and seventy-three; 40the fraternity of Immer numbered one thousand and fifty-two; 41the fraternity of Pashhur numbered one thousand two hundred and forty-seven; 42the fraternity of Harim numbered one thousand and seventeen; 43the Levites, the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the sons of Hodevah, numbered seventy-four; 44the singers, the sons of Asaph, numbered one hundred and forty-eight; 45the gatekeepers, the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, numbered one hundred and thirty-eight. 46The temple-servants, the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, 47the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon, 48the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Shalmai, 49the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, 50the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, 51the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, 52the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephishesim, 53the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, 54the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, 55the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Tamah, 56the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha, 57the sons of Solomon's servants, the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida, 58the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, 59the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth of the Zebaim, the sons of Amon – 60all the temple-servants and the sons of Solomon's servants numbered three hundred and ninety-two. 61And the following are those who came up from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Cherub, Addon and Immer, but they could not specify their paternal house or their family line – whether they were of Israel – : 62the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, who numbered six hundred and forty-two, 63and those of the priests who were the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was named after them. 64These looked for their registration among those registered by genealogy, but it wasn't found, and they were disqualified from the priesthood as extraneous. 65And the governor told them that they were not to eat anything from the holy of holies until the priest should stand with Urim and Thummim. 66The whole convocation together numbered forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty people, 67apart from these menservants and maidservants of theirs – seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven of them. And they also had two hundred and forty-five male and female singers. 68<No Hebrew in WLC for this AV verse> 69There were four hundred and thirty-five camels and six thousand seven hundred and twenty donkeys. 70And some of the paternal heads contributed to the work. The governor gave one thousand darics of gold to the treasury, fifty bowls and five hundred and thirty priests' gowns. 71And some of the paternal heads gave twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand two hundred manehs of silver to the treasury of the work. 72And this is what the rest of the people gave: twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand manehs of silver, and sixty-seven priests' gowns.” 73And the priests and the Levites, and the gatekeepers and the singers, and some of the people, and the temple-servants and all Israel lived in their cities, and by the time the seventh month came, the sons of Israel were in their cities.
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