4. Now, the city was quite wide and spacious, but its population was small, and none of the houses had been rebuilt.
5. When my God had inspired me to gather together the nobles, the magistrates, and the people, and to examine their family records, I came upon the family list of those who had returned in the earliest period. There I found the following written:
6. These are the inhabitants of the province who returned from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away, and who came back to Jerusalem and Judah, to their own cities:
7. They returned with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.The census of the people of Israel:
8. descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two;
9. descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two;
10. descendants of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two;
11. descendants of Pahath-moab who were descendants of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen;