Nehemiah 7:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ I said to them: “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot,^[a] and when the sun begins to go down, have the gatekeepers shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their posts and others in front of their own homes.”

Census of the Province. ⁴ Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few inhabitants within it, and the houses had not been rebuilt. ⁵ Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles, the magistrates, and the common people to be enrolled by families. I also discovered the genealogical record of those who had been the first to come back. This is what I found written in it: