4. Now although the city was wide and large, only a few people were living within it, and no houses had been rebuilt.
5. My God then prompted me to assemble the officials, the officers, and the people so that they could be registered by families. I found the record of the families who were the first to return, and I found the following written in it:
6. These are the people of the province who returned from the captivity of those exiles whom Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile. They all returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to their own town.
7. They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.The number of the people of Israel:
46. The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,
57. The descendants of Solomon’s servants: Sotai, Sophereth, Perida,
58. Jaala, Darkon, Giddel,
59. Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth-hazzebaim, and Amon.
60. All of the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants totaled 392.
61. The following came up from Tel-Melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but were unable to prove that their family or their descent was from Israel:
62. the descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, 642.
63. And of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai (who had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by his name)
64. looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they weren’t found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.