1. NOW WHEN the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites had been appointed,
2. I gave my brother Hanani, with Hananiah the ruler of the castle, charge over Jerusalem, for Hananiah was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.
3. I said to them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while the watchmen are still on guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from the people of Jerusalem, each to his watch [on the wall] and each opposite his own house.
4. Now the city was wide and large, but the people in it were few, and their houses were not yet built.
5. And my God put it into my mind and heart to assemble the nobles, the officers, and the people, that they might be counted by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who came [from Babylon] at the first, and found written in it:
6. These are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away; they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his town,
7. Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah [not the author], Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The men of Israel numbered:
8. The sons of Parosh, 2,172.
9. The sons of Shephatiah, 372.
10. The sons of Arah, 652.
11. The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818.
12. The sons of Elam, 1,254.