1. NOW THESE are the people of the province [of Judah] who went up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, but who came again to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his own city.
2. These came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah [not the author], Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai [not Esther's relative], Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of Israel:
3. The sons [meaning male descendants] of Parosh, 2,172.
4. The sons of Shephatiah, 372.
5. The sons of Arah, 775.
6. The sons of Pahath-moab, namely of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812.
7. The sons of Elam, 1,254.
8. The sons of Zattu, 945.
9. The sons of Zaccai, 760.
10. The sons of Bani, 642.
11. The sons of Bebai, 623.
12. The sons of Azgad, 1,222.
13. The sons of Adonikam, 666.