1When the wall was built, I set up the doors. Then the gatekeepers, the singers and the Levites were appointed.
2I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, together with Hananiah the ruler of the palace. Hananiah was a faithful man, and he feared God more than many others did.
3I said to them, "Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. While the gatekeepers are still on duty, let them shut the doors and bar them. Appoint guards from the people who live in Jerusalem, each at his post, and each one in front of his own house."
4Now the city was wide and large, but there were few people in it, and the houses were not built.
5My God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the rulers and the people, so that they could be listed by family. I found the register of the family lines of those who came up first, and this is what I found written in it:
6These are the people of the province who came up out of captivity. They were among those whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. They came back to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his own city.
7They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum and Baanah. This is the number of the men of the people of Israel:
8the children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two;
9the children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two;
10the children of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two;
11the children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen;
12the children of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;
13the children of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five;
14the children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty;
15the children of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight;
16the children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight;
17the children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two;
18the children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven;
19the children of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven;
20the children of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five;
21the children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;
22the children of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight;
23the children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four;
24the children of Hariph, one hundred and twelve;
25the children of Gibeon, ninety-five;
26the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight;
27the men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight;
28the men of Bethazmaveth, forty-two;
29the men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three;
30the men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one;
31the men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two;
32the men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three;
33the men of the other Nebo, fifty-two;
34the children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;
35the children of Harim, three hundred and twenty;
36the children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five;
37the children of Lod, Hadid and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one;
38the children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
39The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three;
40the children of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two;
41the children of Pashur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven;
42the children of Harim, one thousand and seventeen.
43The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
44The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred and 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 and thirty-eight.
46The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
47the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
48the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, 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 Uzza, the children of Phaseah,
52the children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,
53the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
54the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
55the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,
56the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
57The children of Solomon's servants: 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 Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.
60All the Nethinims and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
61These also came up from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon and Immer. But they could not show their father's house, or their family line, to prove that they were from Israel:
62the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.
63And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, and the children of Barzillai. This Barzillai had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name.
64These looked for their names in the register of family lines, but their names were not found. So they were counted as unclean and were put out of the priesthood.
65The Tirshatha told them that they must not eat any of the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim.
66The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
67besides their menservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred and forty-five singing men and singing women.
68Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules, two hundred and forty-five;
69their camels, four hundred and thirty-five; and their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
70Some of the heads of the families gave gifts for the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand drams of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
71Some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the work twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
72What the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
73So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the Nethinims and all Israel lived in their cities. When the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.