(A)Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the other people to be enrolled by genealogies. Then I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up first, [a]in which I found the following record:

(B)These are the [b]people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had taken into exile, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city, who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, [c]Azariah, [d]Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, [e]Mispereth, Bigvai, [f]Nehum, and Baanah.

The number of men of the people of Israel:

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:5 Lit and I found written in it
  2. Nehemiah 7:6 Lit sons
  3. Nehemiah 7:7 In Ezra 2:2, Seraiah
  4. Nehemiah 7:7 In Ezra 2:2, Reelaiah
  5. Nehemiah 7:7 In Ezra 2:2, Mispar
  6. Nehemiah 7:7 In Ezra 2:2, Rehum

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