Nehemiah 7:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
3 And I said to them, ‘The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot; while the gatekeepers[a] are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their watch-posts, and others before their own houses.’ 4 The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few and no houses had been built.
Lists of the Returned Exiles
5 Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people, to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who were the first to come back, and I found the following written in it:
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- Nehemiah 7:3 Heb while they
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