4. Now the city was great and very wide, and the people in its midst were few, and the houses were not yet built.
5. But God had given to my heart, and I gathered the nobles, and the magistrates, and the common people, so that I might enroll them. And I found a book of the census of those who first went up, and in it there was found written:
6. These are the sons of the province, who ascended from the captivity of the transmigration, those whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had taken away, and who returned into Jerusalem and Judea, each one to his own city.
7. They arrived with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
8. The sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
9. The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
10. The sons of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.
11. The sons of Pahath-moab of the sons of Jeshua and of Joab, two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
12. The sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
13. The sons of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.
14. The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
15. The sons of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
16. The sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.
17. The sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
18. The sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven.
19. The sons of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven.
20. The sons of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
21. The sons of Ater, sons of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.