Ezra 2
The people who came back with Zerubbabel
1Here is a list of the people of the province of Judah who came back from Babylon. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken them to Babylon long before when they were prisoners. Now they came back to Jerusalem and Judah, and everyone went back to his own town. 2They came with Zerubbabel and with Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah.
Here is a list of the families of Israel who came back.
3In the family of Parosh there were 2 172 men, 4in Shephatiah 372, 5in Arah 775 6and in Pahath 2 812, who were the Jeshua and Joab families. 7In Elam there were 1 254, 8in Zattu 945, 9in Zakkai 760,
10in Bani 642, 11in Bebai 623, 12in Azgad 1 222, 13in Adonikam 666, 14in Bigvai 2 056, 15in Adin 454 16and in Ater there were 98, who were from the family of Hezekiah. 17In Bezai there were 323, 18in Jorah 112, 19in Hashum 223 20and in Gibbar 95.
21From the town of Bethlehem there were 23 people, 22from the town of Netophah there were 56, 23from Anathoth 128, 24from Azmaveth 42, 25from Kiriath-Jearim, Kephirah and Beeroth 743, 26from Ramah and Geba 621, 27from Mikmash 122, 28from Bethel and Ai 223, 29from Nebo 52,
30from Magbish 156, 31from the other Elam family 1 254, 32from Harim 320, 33from Lod, Hadid and Ono 725, 34from Jericho 345 35and from Senaah 3 630.
36The priest families: from Jedaiah, a descendant of Jeshua, there were 973, 37from Immer 1 052, 38from Pashhur 1 247 and from 39Harim 1 017. 40The Levite families were Jeshua and Kadmiel, who were both from the Hodaviah family. There were 74.
41The people who had to sing were from the Asaph family, and there were 128. 42The gatekeepers were the families of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita and Shobai. There were 139.
43The temple-servants were the families of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth, 44Keros, Siaha, Padon, 45Lebanah, Hagabah, Akkub, 46Hagab, Shalmai, Hanan, 47Giddel, Gahar, Reaiah, 48Rezin, Nekoda, Gazzam, 49Uzza, Paseah, Besai, 50Asnah, Meunim, Nephusim, 51Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur, 52Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha, 53Barkos, Sisera, Temah, 54Neziah and Hatipha.
55The descendants of Solomon's servants were the families of Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda, 56Jaala, Darkon, Giddel, 57Shephatiah, Hattil, Pokereth-Hazzebaim and Ami. 58The temple-servants and the descendants of Solomon's servants were 392.
59There were also people from the towns of Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show what families they came from and who their forefathers were. They could not prove that they were Israelites.
60There were 652 people from the families of Delaiah, Tobiah and Nekoda. 61The priest families were Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai. There was a man who married a daughter of Barzillai from Gilead and then his name also changed to Barzillai.
62These families looked in the list of names but they could not find their names there, so they could not be priests. 63The governor told them that they could not eat of the holy food. They had to wait until a priest used the urim_and_thummim to ask the Lord what must happen to them.
64There were 42 360 people who came back from Babylon. 65There were also 7 337 slaves and slave women and 200 men and women who had to sing. 66They had 736 horses, 245 mules, 67435 camels and 6 720 donkeys.
The family leaders give money to build the temple
68When the family leaders came to the temple-ground in Jerusalem, they decided to give money to build the temple again at the same place where it had been. 69Each family leader gave as much as he could give to build the temple. In all they gave 61 000 golden darics, 5 000 silver minas and coats for 100 priests.
70Everyone went back to the towns which their families had come from, and so did the priests and Levites, the men and women who sang and the gatekeepers and the temple-servants.
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