# Nehemiah 7

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/nehemiah/7

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. When the wall was finished and I had installed the doors, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed.
2. I entrusted Jerusalem to my brother Hanani and Hananiah the citadel commander, for he was trustworthy and revered God more than most.
3. I said to them, "Do not allow the gates of Jerusalem to be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each one in his watch, and each one near his house."
4. The city was broad and vast, but the people inside were few, and the houses were not built.
5. My God directed me to assemble the leaders, the officials, and the people for enrollment by family records. I discovered the registry of those who returned first, and found their lineages documented in it.
6. These are the people of the province who came up from the exile, those whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had deported, returning to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city.
7. who returned with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. This is the count of Israel's men:
8. The sons of Parosh numbered two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
9. The descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
10. The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.
11. The sons of Pahath-moab from the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
12. The sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
13. The children of Zattu numbered eight hundred forty-five.
14. The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
15. The sons of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
16. The descendants of Bebai numbered six hundred twenty-eight.
17. The sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
18. The descendants of Adonikam numbered six hundred sixty-seven.
19. The sons of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven.
20. The sons of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
21. The descendants of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
22. The descendants of Hashum, three hundred twenty-eight.
23. The sons of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four.
24. The sons of Hariph, one hundred twelve.
25. The sons of Gibeon, ninety-five.
26. The sons of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
27. The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
28. Forty-two men from Beth-azmaveth.
29. The men from Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
30. Men from Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
31. The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.
32. The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred twenty-three.
33. The men from the other Nebo, fifty-two.
34. The men of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
35. The sons of Harim, three hundred twenty.
36. The people of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
37. The descendants of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven hundred twenty-one.
38. The descendants of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty.
39. The priests: descendants of Jedaiah from Jeshua's house, nine hundred seventy-three.
40. The sons of Immer, 1,052.
41. The sons of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
42. The sons of Harim numbered 1,017.
43. The Levites: sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel and sons of Hodevah, seventy-four.
44. The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
45. The 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, one hundred thirty-eight.
46. The Nethinim: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth.
47. the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,
48. the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Salmai,
49. the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,
50. the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,
51. the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah.
52. the descendants of Besai, the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephushesim,
53. the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,
54. the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
55. the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,
56. the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.
57. The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,
58. The descendants of Jaala, the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel,
59. the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the sons of Amon.
60. The Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants numbered three hundred ninety-two.
61. Those from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer also returned, but they were unable to name their ancestral families or trace their lineage to confirm they were Israelites.
62. The sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.
63. Of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.
64. These sought their family records in the genealogies but did not find them, so they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood.
65. The governor told them not to eat any of the holiest offerings until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.
66. The entire assembly numbered forty-two thousand three hundred sixty.
67. apart from their male servants and female servants, numbering seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven, they had two hundred forty-five male singers and female singers.
68. Their horses numbered seven hundred thirty-six, their mules two hundred forty-five.
69. Camels, four hundred thirty-five; donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
70. Some of the heads of the fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand gold darics, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.
71. Some of the heads of the fathers gave twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver to the treasury of the work.
72. What the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
73. The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some from the people, the Nethinim, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month arrived, the children of Israel were in their cities.

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