The List of Returning Exiles

(Nehemiah 7:4-38)

1And these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city, 2who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 3The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two. 4The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two. 5The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five. 6The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve. 7The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four. 8The children of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five. 9The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty. 10The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two. 11The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three. 12The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred and twenty-two. 13The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six. 14The children of Bigvai, two thousand and fifty-six. 15The children of Adin, four hundred and fifty-four. 16The children of Ater of [the family of] Hezekiah, ninety-eight. 17The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three. 18The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve. 19The children of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three. 20The children of Gibbar, ninety-five. 21The children of Bethlehem, a hundred and twenty-three. 22The men of Netophah, fifty-six. 23The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight. 24The children of Azmaveth, forty-two. 25The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three. 26The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one. 27The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two. 28The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three. 29The children of Nebo, fifty-two. 30The children of Magbish, a hundred and fifty-six. 31The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four. 32The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty. 33The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five. 34The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five. 35The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred and thirty.

The Priests

(Nehemiah 12:1-9)

36The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three. 37The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two. 38The children of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred and forty-seven. 39The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

The Levites, Singers, Gatekeepers

40The Levites: the children of Jeshua and of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four. 41The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight. 42The children of the doorkeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred and thirty-nine.

The Temple Servants

43The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, 44the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon, 45the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, 46the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan, 47the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, 48the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam, 49the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah, the children of Besai, 50the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephusim, 51the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, 52the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, 53the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah, 54the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

Descendants of Solomon's Servants

55The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, 56the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, 57the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.

58All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants, three hundred and ninety-two.

59And these are they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub-Addan, Immer; but they could not shew their fathers' house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel. 60The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobijah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two.

Priests Removed

61And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name. 62These sought their genealogical register, but they were not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood. 63And the Tirshatha said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

The Full Number and Possessions

64The whole congregation together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, 65besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women. 66Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules two hundred and forty-five; 67their camels four hundred and thirty-five; the asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

The Exiles' Offerings

(Nehemiah 7:66-73)

68And some of the chief fathers, when they came to the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in its place. 69They gave after their ability to the treasure of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' coats.

70And the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nethinim dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.