Ezra 2
1 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.
2 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included
3 Parosh’s descendants — 2,172
4 Shephatiah’s descendants — 372
5 Arah’s descendants — 775
6 Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants — 2,812
7 Elam’s descendants — 1,254
8 Zattu’s descendants — 945
9 Zaccai’s descendants — 760
10 Bani’s descendants — 642
11 Bebai’s descendants — 623
12 Azgad’s descendants — 1,222
13 Adonikam’s descendants — 666
14 Bigvai’s descendants — 2,056
15 Adin’s descendants — 454
16 Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah — 98
17 Bezai’s descendants — 323
18 Jorah’s descendants — 112
19 Hashum’s descendants — 223
20 Gibbar’s descendants — 95
21 Bethlehem’s people — 123
22 Netophah’s men — 56
23 Anathoth’s men — 128
24 Azmaveth’s people — 42
25 Kiriatharim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s people — 743
26 Ramah’s and Geba’s people — 621
27 Michmas’s men — 122
28 Bethel’s and Ai’s men — 223
29 Nebo’s people — 52
30 Magbish’s people — 156
31 the other Elam’s people — 1,254
32 Harim’s people — 320
33 Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people — 725
34 Jericho’s people — 345
35 Senaah’s people — 3,630
36 The priests included Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua — 973
37 Immer’s descendants — 1,052
38 Pashhur’s descendants — 1,247
39 and Harim’s descendants — 1,017
40 The Levites included Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants from Hodaviah’s descendants — 74
41 The singers included Asaph’s descendants — 128
42 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
43 The temple servants included Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants, Tabbaoth’s descendants,
44 Keros’s descendants, Siaha’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,
45 Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants,
46 Hagab’s descendants, Shalmai’s descendants, Hanan’s descendants,
47 Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants, Reaiah’s descendants,
48 Rezin’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,
49 Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants, Besai’s descendants,
50 Asnah’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants, Nephusim’s descendants,
51 Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,
52 Bazluth’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,
53 Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,
54 Neziah’s descendants, and Hatipha’s descendants.
55 The descendants of Solomon’s servants included Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants, Peruda’s descendants,
56 Jaalah’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,
57 Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants.
58 All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants — 392.
59 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:
60 Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants — 652
61 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.
62 These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.
63 The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
64 The whole combined assembly numbered — 42,360
65 not including their 7,337 male and female servants, and their 200 male and female singers.
66 They had 736 horses, 245 mules,
67 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
68 After they arrived at the LORD’s house in Jerusalem, some of the family heads gave freewill offerings for the house of God in order to have it rebuilt on its original site.
69 Based on what they could give, they gave 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 priestly garments to the treasury for the project.
70 The priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, and some of the people settled in their towns, and the rest of Israel settled in their towns.