Nehemiah 7:5-7
New English Translation
5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders,[a] the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records[b] of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record:[c]
6 These are the people[d] of the province who returned[e] from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile.[f] They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city. 7 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.
The number of Israelite men[g] was as follows:
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- Nehemiah 7:5 tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”
- Nehemiah 7:5 tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”
- Nehemiah 7:5 tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Nehemiah 7:6 tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”
- Nehemiah 7:6 tn Heb “who were going up.”
- Nehemiah 7:6 tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.
- Nehemiah 7:7 tn Heb “the men of the people of Israel.” Some English versions translate as “the people from Israel” (NCV) or “the Israelite people” (NRSV), but “men” should be retained because the following numbers presumably include only adult males.
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