Nehemiah 7:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And I said to them: Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened till the sun be hot. And while they were yet standing by, the gates were shut, and barred: and I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one by their courses, and every man over against his house.

⁴ And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built.

⁵ But God had put in my heart, and I assembled the princes and magistrates, and common people, to number them: and I found a book of the number of them who came up at first, and therein it was found written: