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The city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not been rebuilt.
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My God put it in my heart to assemble the nobles, the leaders and the people, so that they could be registered according to their genealogies. I located the record of the genealogies of those who had come up at the beginning and found written in it:
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"Here is a list of the people of the province who had been exiled, carried off to Bavel by N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel, but who later returned from exile and went up to Yerushalayim and Y'hudah, each to his own city;
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they went with Z'rubavel, Yeshua, Nechemyah, 'Azaryah, Ra'amyah, Nachmani, Mordekhai, Bilshan, Misperet, Bigvai, N'chum and Ba'anah. "The number of men from the people of Isra'el:
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descendants of Par'osh 2,172
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descendants of Sh'fatyah 372
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descendants of Arach 652
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descendants of Pachat-Mo'av, from the descendants of Yeshua and Yo'av 2,818
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descendants of 'Eilam 1,254
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descendants of Zatu 845
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descendants of Zakkai 760