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Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. Then I found the register of the genealogy of those who came [from Babylon] first, and I found the following record:

These are the sons (descendants, people) of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported [to Babylon]; they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his city, the ones who came with [a]Zerubbabel, Jeshua, [b]Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.

The men of the people of Israel [c]numbered:

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:7 The Book of Ezra contains the same list using purer Hebrew names.
  2. Nehemiah 7:7 Not the author of this book.
  3. Nehemiah 7:7 There are slight, unexplained variations between numbers in a few entries in this list and the list given in Ezra.

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