Ezra 2:1-35

1 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;

2 they went with Z'rubavel, Yeshua, Nechemyah, S'rayah, Re'elyah, Mordekhai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rechum and Ba'anah. The number of men from the people of Isra'el:

3 descendants of Par'osh 2,172

4 descendants of Sh'fatyah 372

5 descendants of Arach 775

6 descendants of Pachat-Mo'av, from the descendants of Yeshua and Yo'av 2,812

7 descendants of 'Eilam 1,254

8 descendants of Zatu 945

9 descendants of Zakkai 760

10 descendants of Bani 642

11 descendants of B'vai 623

12 descendants of 'Azgad 1,222

13 descendants of Adonikam 666

14 descendants of Bigvai 2,056

15 descendants of 'Adin 454

16 descendants of Ater, of Y'chizkiyah 98

17 descendants of Betzai 323

18 descendants of Yorah 112

19 descendants of Hashum 223

20 descendants of Gibbar 95

21 descendants of Beit-Lechem 123

22 people of N'tofah 56

23 people of 'Anatot 128

24 descendants of 'Azmavet 42

25 descendants of Kiryat-'Arim, K'firah and Be'erot

26 descendants of Ramah and Geva

27 people of Mikhmas

28 people of Beit-El and 'Ai

29 descendants of N'vo

30 descendants of Magbish

31 descendants of the other 'Eilam

32 descendants of Harim

33 descendants of Lod, Hadid and Ono

34 descendants of Yericho

35 descendants of S'na'ah

Ezra 2:1-35 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 2

This chapter contains a list of those that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem, of their leaders, their chief men, princes and priests, Ezr 2:1,2 of the people, described by their families, towns, and cities, and number of persons, Ezr 2:3-35, of the priests, Levites, and Nethinims, Ezr 2:36-58, and of those that could not make out their genealogy, people and priests, Ezr 2:59-63, and then the sum total of the whole congregation is given, Ezr 2:64, besides men and maidservants, singing men and women, and cattle of divers sorts, Ezr 2:65-67, and the chapter is closed with an account of the freewill offerings of the principal men towards the building of the temple, and of the settlement of the people in their respective cities, Ezr 2:68-70.