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Ezra 2:1-67

Ezra 2:1-67 CSB

These  now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon  had deported to Babylon.  They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. They came with Zerubbabel,  Jeshua,  Nehemiah, Seraiah,  Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included  Parosh’s descendants  2,172 Shephatiah’s descendants 372 Arah’s descendants 775 Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,812 Elam’s descendants 1,254 Zattu’s descendants 945 Zaccai’s descendants 760 Bani’s descendants 642 Bebai’s descendants 623 Azgad’s descendants 1,222 Adonikam’s descendants  666 Bigvai’s descendants 2,056 Adin’s descendants 454 Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah 98 Bezai’s descendants 323 Jorah’s descendants 112 Hashum’s descendants 223 Gibbar’s descendants 95 Bethlehem’s   people 123 Netophah’s men 56 Anathoth’s men 128 Azmaveth’s people 42 Kiriatharim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s people 743 Ramah’s  and Geba’s people 621 Michmas’s men 122 Bethel’s and Ai’s   men 223 Nebo’s people 52 Magbish’s people 156 the other Elam’s people 1,254 Harim’s people 320 Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people 725 Jericho’s   people 345 Senaah’s people 3,630 The priests included Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua 973 Immer’s descendants 1,052 Pashhur’s descendants 1,247 and Harim’s descendants 1,017 The Levites included Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants from Hodaviah’s descendants 74 The singers included Asaph’s   descendants 128 The gatekeepers’  descendants included Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants, in all 139 The temple servants  included Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants, Tabbaoth’s descendants, Keros’s descendants, Siaha’s descendants, Padon’s descendants, Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hagab’s descendants, Shalmai’s   descendants, Hanan’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants, Reaiah’s descendants, Rezin’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants, Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants, Besai’s descendants, Asnah’s descendants, Meunim’s   descendants, Nephusim’s   descendants, Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants, Bazluth’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants, Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants, Neziah’s descendants, and Hatipha’s descendants. The descendants of Solomon’s servants  included Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants, Peruda’s descendants, Jaalah’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants, Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants. All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants 392 . The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their ancestral families  and their lineage were Israelite: Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants 652 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 who bore their name. These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood. The governor  ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.  The whole combined assembly numbered 42,360 not including their 7,337 male and female servants, and their 200 male and female singers.  They had 736 horses, 245 mules, 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.