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Then I said to them, "Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be openeduntil the sun is hot, and while they are standing guard, let them shut and bolt the doors. Also appointguards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each at his post, and each in front of his own house."
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Then my Godput it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogies. Then I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up first in which I found the following record:
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These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exileswhomNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carriedaway, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city,
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who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of men of the people of Israel:
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These were they who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon and Immer; but they could not show their fathers'houses or their descendants, whether they were of Israel:
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Of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, whotook a wife of the daughters of Barzillai, the Gileadite, and was named*after them.
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Thesesearched among their ancestralregistration*, but it could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood.
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Some from among the heads of fathers' households gave to the work. The governorgave to the treasury1,000golddrachmas, 50basins, 530**priests'garments.
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Now the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the templeservants and allIsrael, lived in their cities. And when the seventhmonthcame, the sons of Israel were in their cities.