Nehemiah 7:4-6

New Catholic Bible

Census of the Province. ⁴ Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few inhabitants within it, and the houses had not been rebuilt. ⁵ Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles, the magistrates, and the common people to be enrolled by families. I also discovered the genealogical record of those who had been the first to come back. This is what I found written in it:

⁶ These are the inhabitants of the province who returned from the captivity of those exiles whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried away. Each returned to his own town.