Nehemiah 7:4-6

Evangelical Heritage Version

Repopulating the City

⁴ Now the city was wide open and spacious, but there were few people in it, and no houses were being built. ⁵ So my God placed into my heart a plan to gather the nobles, the officials, and the people so they could be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who were the first to come up from Babylon. I found this written in it:

⁶ These are the people^[a] of the province who went up from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had exiled. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each man to his city.