Ezra 2

1And these are the sons of the province who came back from the captivity of the exiles, whom Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the sovereign of Baḇel had exiled to Baḇel, and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehuḏah, each to his own city,

2who came with Zerubbaḇel: Yĕshua, Neḥemyah, Serayah, Re‛ĕlayah, Mordeḵai, Bilshan, Mispar, Biḡwai, Reḥum, Ba‛anah. The number of the men of the people of Yisra’ĕl:

3sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two;

4sons of Shephatyah, three hundred and seventy-two;

5sons of Araḥ, seven hundred and seventy-five;

6sons of Paḥath-Mo’aḇ, of the sons of Yĕshua and Yo’aḇ, two thousand eight hundred and twelve;

7sons of Ěylam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;

8sons of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five;

9sons of Zakkai, seven hundred and sixty;

10sons of Bani, six hundred and forty-two;

11sons of Bĕḇai, six hundred and twenty-three;

12sons of Azgaḏ, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two;

13sons of Aḏoniqam, six hundred and sixty-six;

14sons of Biḡwai, two thousand and fifty-six;

15sons of Aḏin, four hundred and fifty-four;

16sons of Atĕr of Ḥizqiyah, ninety-eight;

17sons of Bĕtsai, three hundred and twenty-three;

18sons of Yorah, one hundred and twelve;

19sons of Ḥashum, two hundred and twenty-three;

20sons of Gibbar, ninety-five;

21sons of Bĕyth Leḥem, one hundred and twenty-three;

22men of Netophah, fifty-six;

23men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight;

24sons of Azmaweth, forty-two;

25sons of Qiryath Arim, Kephirah, and Be’ĕroth, seven hundred and forty-three;

26sons of Ramah and Geḇa, six hundred and twenty-one;

27men of Miḵmas, one hundred and twenty-two;

28men of Bĕyth Ěl and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three;

29sons of Neḇo, fifty-two;

30sons of Maḡbish, one hundred and fifty-six;

31sons of the other Ěylam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;

32sons of Ḥarim, three hundred and twenty;

33sons of Loḏ, Ḥaḏiḏ, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five;

34sons of Yeriḥo, three hundred and forty-five;

35sons of Sena’ah, three thousand six hundred and thirty.

36The priests: sons of Yeḏayah, of the house of Yĕshua, nine hundred and seventy-three;

37sons of Immĕr, one thousand and fifty-two;

38sons of Pashḥur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven;

39sons of Ḥarim, one thousand and seventeen.

40The Lĕwites: sons of Yĕshua and Qadmi’ĕl, of the sons of Hoḏawyah, seventy-four.

41The singers: sons of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight.

42Sons of the gatekeepers: sons of Shallum, sons of Atĕr, sons of Talmon, sons of Aqquḇ, sons of Ḥatita, sons of Shoḇai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all.

43The Nethinim: sons of Tsiḥa, sons of Ḥasupha, sons of Tabba‛oth,

44sons of Qĕros, sons of Si‛aha, sons of Paḏon,

45sons of Leḇanah, sons of Ḥaḡaḇah, sons of Aqquḇ,

46sons of Ḥaḡaḇ, sons of Shamlai, sons of Ḥanan,

47sons of Giddĕl, sons of Gaḥar, sons of Re’ayah,

48sons of Retsin, sons of Neqoḏa, sons of Gazzam,

49sons of Uzza, sons of Pasĕaḥ, sons of Bĕsai,

50sons of Asnah, sons of Me‛unim, sons of Nephusim,

51sons of Baqbuq, sons of Ḥaqupha, sons of Ḥarḥur,

52sons of Batsluth, sons of Meḥiḏa, sons of Ḥarsha,

53sons of Barqos, sons of Sisera, sons of Tĕmaḥ,

54sons of Netsiyaḥ, sons of Ḥatipha.

55Sons of Shelomoh’s servants: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Peruḏa,

56sons of Ya‛ala, sons of Darqon, sons of Giddĕl,

57sons of Shephatyah, sons of Ḥattil, sons of Poḵereth of Tseḇayim, sons of Ami.

58All the Nethinim and the children of Shelomoh’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

59And these were those who came up from Tĕl Melaḥ, Tĕl Ḥarsha, Kerub, Addan, Immĕr; but they were unable to show their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Yisra’ĕl:

60sons of Delayah, sons of Toḇiyah, sons of Neqoḏa, six hundred and fifty-two;

61and of the sons of the priests: sons of Ḥaḇayah, sons of Qots, sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gil‛aḏite, and was called by their name.

62These sought their register among those who were counted by genealogy, but they were not found, so they were barred from the priesthood as defiled.

63And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most set-apart gifts until there stood up a priest with the Urim and Tummim.

64The entire assembly was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

65besides their male and female servants – these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred men and women singers.

66Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,

67their camels four hundred and thirty-five, donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

68And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses, when they came to the House of יהוה which is in Yerushalayim, offered voluntarily for the House of Elohim, to establish it in its place.

69They gave according to their ability to the treasury for the work sixty-one thousand gold drachmas, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly garments.

70And the priests and the Lĕwites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Yisra’ĕl in their cities.

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