Nehemiah 7:4-6

New Life Version

The Jews Return to Jerusalem

⁴ Now the city was wide and large, but the people in it were few and the houses were not built. ⁵ Then my God put it into my heart to gather together the rulers, the leaders and the people to have their names written down by families. And I found the book of the family names of those who came up first. This is what I found written in it: ⁶ These are the people who left the land of Babylon and returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city. Their families had been taken away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon.