KJ3 Literal Translation
Nehemiah 7
1 Nehemiah commits the charge of Jerusalem to Hanani and Hananiah. 5 A register of the gene-alogy of them which came out of Babylon, 9 of the people.
1¶ And it happened when the wall was built, I set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed.
2I commanded that my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the temple be over Jerusalem. For he was as a man of truth and feared God above many.
3And I said to them, Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the heat of the sun. And while they are standing, let them shut and bar the doors. And make stand guards from those living in Jerusalem, a man in his watch, and a man to be across from his house.
4And the city was wide on both hands, and great, but the people were few in its midst, and the houses were not being built.
5¶ And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, to enroll by family. And I found a register of genealogy of those who came up at the first. And I found it was written in it:
6These are the sons of the province who went up of the exiles, of the captivity, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had removed. And they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each man to his city.
7The ones coming with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel was:
8the sons of Parosh were two thousand, one hundred and seventy-two.
9The sons of Shephatiah were three hundred and seventy-two.
10The sons of Arah were six hundred and fifty-two.
11The sons of Pahath-moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, were two thousand, eight hundred and eighteen.
12The sons of Elam were a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.
13The sons of Zattu were eight hundred and forty-five.
14The sons of Zaccai were seven hundred and sixty.
15The sons of Binnui were six hundred and forty-eight.
16The sons of Bebai were six hundred and twenty-eight.
17The sons of Azgad were two thousand, three hundred and twenty-two.
18The sons of Adonikam were six hundred and sixty-seven.
19The sons of Bigvai were two thousand and sixty-seven.
20The sons of Adin were six hundred and fifty-five.
21The sons of Ater of Hezekiah were ninety-eight.
22The sons of Hashum were three hundred and twenty-eight.
23The sons of Bezai were three hundred and twenty-four.
24The sons of Hariph were a hundred and twelve.
25The sons of Gibeon were ninety-five.
26The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah were a hundred and eighty-eight.
27The men of Anathoth were a hundred and twenty-eight.
28The men of Beth-azmaveth were forty-two.
29The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth were seven hundred and forty-three.
30The men of Ramah and Gaba were six hundred and twenty-one.
31The men of Michmas were a hundred and twenty-two.
32The men of Beth-el and Ai were a hundred and twenty-three.
33The men of the other Nebo were fifty-two.
34The sons of the other Elam were a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.
35The sons of Harim were three hundred and twenty.
36The sons of Jericho were three hundred and forty-five.
37The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono were seven hundred and twenty-one.
38The sons of Senaah were three thousand, nine hundred and thirty.
39The priests: The sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred and seventy-three.
40The sons of Immer were a thousand and fifty-two.
41The sons of Pashur were a thousand, two hundred and forty-seven.
42The sons of Harim were a thousand and seventeen.
43The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the sons of Hodevah, were seventy-four.
44The singers: the sons of Asaph were a hundred and forty-eight.
45The gatekeepers: The sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai were a hundred and thirty-eight.
46The temple-slaves: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hashupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,
47the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,
48the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,
49the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,
50the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,
51the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,
52the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephishesim,
53the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,
54the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
55the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Tamah,
56the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha.
57The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,
58the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,
59the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, and the sons of Amon.
60All the temple slaves and the sons of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
61And these were they who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer. But they were not able to manifest their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:
62The sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two;
63and of the priests, the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of Barzillai, who took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
64These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found. And they were polluted from the priesthood.
65And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
66All the congregation together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty.
67Besides the male slaves and their female-slaves, these were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven. And they had two hundred and forty-five singing men and singing women.
68Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six. Their mules were two hundred and forty-five;
69their camels, four hundred and thirty-five; their asses, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty.
70And some of the heads of the fathers gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty-five priests' garments.
71And some of the heads of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pieces of silver.
72And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand pieces of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
73So the priests, and the Levites, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the temple-slaves, and all Israel, lived in their cities. And when the seventh month came, the sons of Israel were in their cities.
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