Nehemiah 7:5-7
Evangelical Heritage Version
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. 7 These were the people who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Ra’amiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Ba’anah.[b]
This was the number of men from the people of Israel:[c]
Footnotes
- Nehemiah 7:6 Literally sons
- Nehemiah 7:7 A number of the names in this list vary in form from the names in the parallel list in Ezra 2.
- Nehemiah 7:7 In this list and the parallel list in Ezra there are many variants of names and numbers. The translation notes only some of the more important variants.
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