CHAPTER 7
1 And after that the wall of Jeru-salem was builded, and I had set up the gates thereof, and had numbered the porters, and singers, and deacons [or Levites],
2 I commanded to Hanani, my brother, and to Hananiah, the prince of the house of Jerusalem; for he seemed a soothfast man, and dreading God more than other men did;
3 and I said to them, The gates of Jerusalem be not opened till to the heat of the sun; and, when I was yet present, the gates were closed, and locked. And I set keepers thereof of the dwellers of Jerusalem, all men by their whiles, or times, and each man over against his own house.
4 And the city was full broad and great, and little people in the midst thereof, and the houses were not yet builded.
5 And God gave in mine heart, and I gathered together the principal men, and magistrates, and the common people, for to number them; and I found a book of the number[ing] of them, that had gone up first from the captivity. And it was found written therein,
6 These be the sons of the province, which went up from the captivity of men passing over from Babylon to Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had led over into Babylon; and they that were come with Zerubbabel turned again into Jerusalem and into Judah, each man to his city;
7 Joshua, that is to say, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Naham-ani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Big-vai, Nehum, Baanah. And the number of the men of the people of Israel is this;
8 the sons of Parosh, two thousand an hundred and two and seventy;
9 the sons of Shephatiah, three hundred and two and seventy;
10 the sons of Arah, six hundred and two and fifty;
11 the sons of Pahathmoab, of the sons of Jeshua and of Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen;
12 the sons of Elam, a thousand eight hundred and four and fifty;
13 the sons of Zattu, eight hundred and five and forty;
14 the sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty;
15 the sons of Binnui, six hundred and eight and forty;
16 the sons of Bebai, six hundred and eight and twenty;
17 the sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and two and twenty;
18 the sons of Adonikam, six hundred and seven and sixty;
19 the sons of Bigvai, two thousand and seven and sixty;
20 the sons of Adin, six hundred and five and fifty;
21 the sons of Ater, the son of Hezekiah, eight and twenty;
22 the sons of Hashum, three hundred and eight and twenty;
23 the sons of Bezai, three hundred and four and twenty;
24 the sons of Hariph, an hundred and seven and twenty;
25 the sons of Gibeon, five and twenty;
26 the men of Bethlehem and of Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight;
27 the men of Anathoth, an hundred and eight and twenty;
28 the men of Bethazmaveth, two and forty;
29 the men of Kiriathjearim, of Chephirah, and of Beeroth, seven hundred and three and forty;
30 the men of Ramah and of Gaba, six hundred and one and twenty;
31 the men of Michmas, two hundred and two and twenty;
32 the men of Bethel and of Ai, an hundred and three and twenty;
33 the men of the other Nebo, two and fifty;
34 the men of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and four and fifty;
35 the sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty;
36 the sons of Jericho, three hundred and five and forty;
37 the sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and one and twenty;
38 the sons of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty;
39 priests; the sons of Jedaiah, in the house of Joshua, nine hundred and four and seventy;
40 the sons of Immer, a thousand and two and fifty;
41 the sons of Pashur, a thousand two hundred and seven and forty;
42 the sons of Harim, a thousand and eighteen;
43 deacons [or Levites]; the sons of Joshua, and of Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodevah, four and seventy;
44 singers; the sons of Asaph, an hundred and seven and forty;
45 porters; the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, an hundred and eight and thirty;
46 Nethinims; the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hashupha, the sons of Tab-baoth,
47 the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,
48 the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,
49 the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,
50 the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,
51 the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Phaseah,
52 the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, sons of Nephishesim,
53 sons of Bakbuk, sons of Hakupha, sons of Harhur,
54 sons of Bazlith, sons of Mehida, sons of Harsha,
55 sons of Barkos, sons of Sisera, sons of Tamah,
56 sons of Neziah, sons of Hatipha;
57 sons of the servants of Solomon; sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Perida,
58 sons of Jaala, sons of Darkon, sons of Giddel,
59 sons of Shephatiah, sons of Hattil, sons of Pochereth, which were born of Zebaim, and the sons of Amon;
60 all Nethinims, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hun-dred and two and twenty or seventy.
61 And these that follow be they that went up of the country of Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; which might not show the house of their fathers, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel;
62 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and two and forty;
63 and of the priests; the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, that took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai of Gilead, and was called by the name of them;
64 these sought the scripture of their genealogy, and they found it not, and they were therefore cast out of priest-hood.
65 And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy things of holy men, till that a wise priest rose up among the people.
66 All the multitude as one man, two and forty thousand six hundred and sixty,
67 besides the servants and handmaids of them, which were seven thousand three hundred and seven and thirty; and among [them] the singers and sing-eresses, six hundred and five and forty.
68 The horses of them, six hundred and six and thirty; the mules of them, two hundred and five and forty;
69 the camels of them, four hundred and five and thirty; the asses of them, six thousand eight hundred and thirty.
70 Soothly some of the princes of the meines gave costs into the work of God; the Tirshatha gave into the treasure [or treasury], a thousand drachmas/drams of gold, fifty vials, or basins, five hundred and thirty coats of priests.
71 And of the princes of [the] meines, they gave into the treasure [or treasury] of the work, twenty thousand drachmas/ drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred bezants of silver.
72 And that that the residue people gave, twenty thousand drachmas/drams of gold, and two thousand bezants of silver, and seven and sixty coats of priests.
73 Soothly [the] priests, and deacons [or Levites], and porters, and singers, and the residue people, and Nethinims, and all Israel dwelled in their cities. And when the seventh month was come under Ezra and Nehemiah, soothly the sons of Israel were in their cities.