Nehemiah 7:4-6

Common English Bible

Nehemiah registers the families

⁴ Now although the city was wide and large, only a few people were living within it, and no^[a] houses had been rebuilt. ⁵ My God then prompted me to assemble the officials, the officers, and the people so that they could be registered by families. I found the record of the families who were the first to return, and I found the following written in it: