# Nehemiah 7

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1. When the wall had been rebuilt and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,
2. I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than most.
3. I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot. While the guards are still on duty, have them shut the doors and bar them. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each at his post and each opposite his own house.”
4. The city was wide and large, but there were few people in it, and no houses had been rebuilt.
5. Then my God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who had come up first, and I found written in it:
6. These are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exile, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.
7. They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
8. the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
9. the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
10. the descendants of Arah, 652;
11. the descendants of Pahath-moab, through the line of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818;
12. the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
13. the descendants of Zattu, 845;
14. the descendants of Zaccai, 760;
15. the descendants of Binnui, 648;
16. the descendants of Bebai, 628;
17. the descendants of Azgad, 2,322;
18. the descendants of Adonikam, 667;
19. the descendants of Bigvai, 2,067;
20. the descendants of Adin, 655;
21. the descendants of Ater, through Hezekiah, ninety-eight;
22. the descendants of Hashum, 328;
23. the descendants of Bezai, 324;
24. the descendants of Hariph, 112;
25. the people of Gibeon, ninety-five;
26. the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;
27. the men of Anathoth, 128;
28. the men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two;
29. the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;
30. the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;
31. the men of Michmas, 122;
32. the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;
33. the men of the other Nebo, fifty-two;
34. the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;
35. the descendants of Harim, 320;
36. the people of Jericho, 345;
37. the people of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721;
38. the people of Senaah, 3,930.
39. The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973;
40. the descendants of Immer, 1,052;
41. the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247;
42. the descendants of Harim, 1,017.
43. The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua, through Kadmiel, of the line of Hodevah, seventy-four.
44. The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.
45. The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai, 138.
46. The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,
47. Keros, Sia, Padon,
48. Lebana, Hagaba, Shalmai,
49. Hanan, Giddel, Gahar,
50. Reaiah, Rezin, Nekoda,
51. Gazzam, Uzza, Paseah,
52. Besai, Meunim, Nephishesim,
53. Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur,
54. Bazlith, Mehida, Harsha,
55. Barkos, Sisera, Temah,
56. Neziah, and Hatipha.
57. The descendants of Solomon’s servants: the descendants of Sotai, Sophereth, Perida,
58. Jaala, Darkon, Giddel,
59. Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth-hazzebaim, and Amon.
60. All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants numbered 392.
61. The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove that their ancestral houses and their descent were from Israel:
62. the descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, 642.
63. And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai, who had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.
64. These men searched for their records among those registered by genealogy, but they could not be found, so they were barred from the priesthood as unclean.
65. The governor told them not to eat any of the most holy food until a priest arose who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
66. The whole assembly together numbered 42,360,
67. besides their male and female servants, who numbered 7,337; and they had two hundred male and female singers.
68. Their horses numbered 736, their mules 245,
69. their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720.
70. Some of the heads of the ancestral houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand gold darics, fifty basins, and 530 priestly garments.
71. Some of the heads of the ancestral houses gave to the treasury for the work twenty thousand gold darics and 2,200 silver minas.
72. What the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold darics, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly garments.
73. So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their towns. When the seventh month came, the people of Israel were in their towns.

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[Nehemiah 6](https://www.lumin.faith/read/nehemiah/6.md)
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