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Ezra 2:52-70 Amplified Bible (AMP)

52. The sons of Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha,

53. The sons of Barkos, Sisera, Temah,

54. The sons of Neziah [and] of Hatipha.

55. The sons of [King] Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, Sophereth (Hassophereth), Peruda,

56. The sons of Jaalah, Darkon, Giddel,

57. The sons of Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth-hazzebaim, Ami.

58. All the Nethinim [the temple servants] and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392.

59. And these were they who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not show a record of their fathers' houses or prove their descent, whether they were of Israel:

60. The sons of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, 652.

61. And of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, of Hakkoz, and of Barzillai, who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the [noted] Gileadite and had assumed their name. [II Sam. 17:27, 28; 19:31-39.]

62. These sought their names among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.

63. [Zerubbabel] the governor told them they should not eat of the most holy things [the priests' food] until there should be a priest with Urim and Thummim [who by consulting these articles in his breastplate could know God's will in the matter].

64. The whole congregation numbered 42,360,

65. Besides their menservants and maidservants, 7,337; and among them they had 200 men and women singers.

66. Their horses were 736; their mules, 245;

67. Their camels were 435; their donkeys, 6,720.

68. Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God to [re]build it on its site.

69. They gave as they were able to the treasury for the work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priests' garments.

70. So the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their own towns, and all Israel [gradually settled] into their towns.