Lists of Returned Exiles
5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of
1those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:
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2These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.
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They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah,
3Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
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the sons of Parosh, 2,172.
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The sons of Shephatiah, 372.
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The sons of Arah,
4 652.
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The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818.
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The sons of
5Elam, 1,254.
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The sons of Zattu, 845.
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The sons of Zaccai, 760.
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The sons of
6Binnui, 648.
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The sons of Bebai, 628.
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The sons of Azgad, 2,322.
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The sons of Adonikam, 667.
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The sons of Bigvai, 2,067.
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The sons of Adin, 655.
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The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98.
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The sons of Hashum, 328.
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The sons of
7Bezai, 324.
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The sons of Hariph, 112.
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The sons of
8Gibeon, 95.
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The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188.
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The men of Anathoth, 128.
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The men
9of Beth-azmaveth, 42.
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The men of
10Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.
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The men of Ramah and Geba, 621.
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The men of Michmas, 122.
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The men of Bethel and Ai, 123.
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The men of the other Nebo, 52.
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The sons of
11the other Elam, 1,254.
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The sons of Harim, 320.
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The sons of Jericho, 345.
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The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721.
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The sons of Senaah, 3,930.
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The priests: the sons of
12Jedaiah, namely the house of Jeshua, 973.
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The sons of
13Immer, 1,052.
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The sons of
14Pashhur, 1,247.
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The sons of
15Harim, 1,017.
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The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, namely of Kadmiel of the sons of
16Hodevah, 74.
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The singers: the sons of Asaph, 148.
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The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.
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The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,
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the sons of Keros, the sons of
17Sia, the sons of Padon,
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the sons of Lebana, the sons of
18Hagaba, the sons of
19Shalmai,
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the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,
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the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,
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the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,
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the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of
20Nephushesim,
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the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,
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the sons of
21Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
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the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,
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the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.
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The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of
22Perida,
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the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,
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the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of
23Amon.
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All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392.
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24The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub,
25Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers' houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:
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the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642.
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Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).
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These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
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26The
27governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.