I got up during the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anybody what my God put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No animal [was] with me except the animal that I was riding on.

{Next to them} the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their neck to the work of their lord.

Then my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, the prefects, and the people to be enrolled. I found the book of the genealogy of those who first came back, and I found [this] written upon it:

But in your great compassions you did not put an end to them, and you did not abandon them. For you are a gracious and compassionate God.

"We put on ourselves the commandment upon us to yearly give a third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

prepared for [Tobiah] a large chamber where they had formerly put the grain offering, the frankincense, the [temple] objects, tithes of grain, wine, and oil commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the offerings of the priests.