The Exiles Who Returned

1 These(A) now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon(a) had deported to Babylon.(B) They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. 2 They came with Zerubbabel,(C) Jeshua,(D) Nehemiah, Seraiah,(E) Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.

The number of the Israelite men included:(b)
3 Parosh’s descendants(F)2,172
4 Shephatiah’s descendants372
5 Arah’s descendants775
6 Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,812
7 Elam’s descendants1,254
8 Zattu’s descendants945
9 Zaccai’s descendants760
10 Bani’s descendants642
11 Bebai’s descendants623
12 Azgad’s descendants1,222
13 Adonikam’s descendants(G)666
14 Bigvai’s descendants2,056
15 Adin’s descendants454
16 Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah98
17 Bezai’s descendants323
18 Jorah’s descendants112
19 Hashum’s descendants223
20 Gibbar’s descendants95
21 Bethlehem’s(H) people123
22 Netophah’s men56
23 Anathoth’s men128
24 Azmaveth’s people42
25 Kiriatharim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s people743
26 Ramah’s(I) and Geba’s people621
27 Michmas’s men122
28 Bethel’s and Ai’s(J) men223
29 Nebo’s people52
30 Magbish’s people156
31 the other Elam’s people1,254
32 Harim’s people320
33 Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people725
34 Jericho’s(K) people345
35 Senaah’s people3,630
36 The priests included:

Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua 973
37 Immer’s descendants1,052
38 Pashhur’s descendants1,247
39 and Harim’s descendants1,017
40 The Levites included:

Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants from Hodaviah’s descendants 74
41 The singers included:

Asaph’s(L) descendants 128
42 The gatekeepers’(M) descendants included:

Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants, in all 139
43 The temple servants(N) included:

Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants,
Tabbaoth’s descendants,
44
Keros’s descendants,
Siaha’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,
45
Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants,
Akkub’s descendants,
46
Hagab’s descendants,
Shalmai’s(c) descendants, Hanan’s descendants,
47
Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,
Reaiah’s descendants,
48
Rezin’s descendants,
Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,
49
Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,
Besai’s descendants,
50
Asnah’s descendants,
Meunim’s(d) descendants, Nephusim’s(e) descendants,
51
Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants,
Harhur’s descendants,
52
Bazluth’s descendants,
Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,
53
Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants,
Temah’s descendants,
54
Neziah’s descendants,
and Hatipha’s descendants.
55 The descendants of Solomon’s servants(O) included:

Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants, Peruda’s descendants,
56 Jaalah’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,
57 Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants.
58 All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants 392.
59 The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their families and ancestry were Israelite:
60 Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants 652
61 and from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai—who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.

Footnotes:

a. Ezra 2:1: Nebuchadnezzar reigned 605–562 b.c.
b. Ezra 2:2: Lit the men of the people of Israel
c. Ezra 2:46: Alt Hb tradition reads Shamlai’s
d. Ezra 2:50: Alt Hb tradition reads Meinim’s
e. Ezra 2:50: Alt Hb tradition reads Nephisim’s

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