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Nehemiah 7:5-38

Listen to Nehemiah 7:5-38
5 Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who were the first to come back, and I found the following written in it:
6 These are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried into exile; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.
7 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the Israelite people:
8 the descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
9 Of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
10 Of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.
11 Of Pahath-moab, namely the descendants of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
12 Of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
13 Of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.
14 Of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
15 Of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
16 Of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.
17 Of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
18 Of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven.
19 Of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven.
20 Of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
21 Of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
22 Of Hashum, three hundred twenty-eight.
23 Of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four.
24 Of Hariph, one hundred twelve.
25 Of Gibeon, ninety-five.
26 The people of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
27 Of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
28 Of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.
29 Of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
30 Of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
31 Of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.
32 Of Bethel and Ai, one hundred twenty-three.
33 Of the other Nebo, fifty-two.
34 The descendants of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
35 Of Harim, three hundred twenty.
36 Of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
37 Of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.
38 Of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty.

Nehemiah 7:5-38 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 7

Nehemiah having built the wall, and set up the doors, appointed two persons to take the charge of the city, and set watches for the safety of it, and to take special care about opening and shutting the gates of it, Ne 7:1-3, and concerned he was for the peopling of it, and having found a register of the first comers to it, gives their names, Ne 7:4-69 and some account of the freewill offerings made for the work they came about, Ne 7:70-73.

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New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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