35. All the temple servants and the family of Solomon’s servants numbered 372.
36. These following persons are those who went up from Tel-melah and Tel-harsha, under the leadership of Cherub, Addan, and Immer,
37. who weren’t able to prove by their family houses or by their lineage that they had descended from Israel: the family of Delaiah, Tobiah’s son, and the family of Nekoda, 652.
38. Also from the priests, the following persons had assumed the priestly office but were found to be unqualified: the family of Habaiah, the family of Hakkoz, and the family of Jaddus, who had married Agia, one of the daughters of Barzillai, and was called by his name.
39. When they inspected the registry and didn’t find the lineage of these men, they excluded them from the service of the priesthood.
40. Nehemiah and Attharias told them not to share in the holy things until a high priest arrives wearing Clarity and Truth.
41. All those who were from Israel, 12 or more years old, excluding male and female servants, were 42,360; their male and female servants were 7,337; there were 245 harpists and singers.
42. There were 435 camels, 7,036 horses, 245 mules, and 5,525 donkeys.
43. Some of the leaders of the family houses, when they came to God’s temple in Jerusalem, solemnly pledged that they would erect the house on its site,
44. and that they would give to the sacred treasury for the work one thousand manehs of gold, five thousand manehs of silver, and one hundred priests’ robes.
45. The priests, the Levites, and some of the people took up residence in Jerusalem and the surrounding area. The temple singers, the gatekeepers, and the rest of Israel settled in the villages.
46. When the seventh month came and the Israelites were all in their own homes, they gathered together in the square near the first gate on the eastern side.
47. Then Jeshua, Jozadak’s son with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel, Shealtiel’s son with his group, took their positions and prepared the altar of the God of Israel