4. Now the city was spacious and large, but there were few people within it and no houses were being built.
5. So my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the scroll of the genealogical record of those who formerly returned. I found the following written there:
6. These are the people of the province who returned from the captivity of the exile, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had taken away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each man to his own town.
7. Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of Bnei-Yisrael was:
8. The sons of Parosh—2,172
9. The sons of Shephatiah—372
10. The sons of Arah—652
11. The sons of Pahat-moab, from the sons of Jeshua and Joab—2,818
12. The sons of Elam—1,254
13. The sons of Zattu—845
14. The sons of Zaccai—760
15. The sons of Binnui—648
16. The sons of Bebai—628
17. The sons of Azgad—2,328
18. The sons of Adonikam—667
19. The sons of Bigvai—2,067
20. The sons of Adin—655
21. The sons of Ater of Hezekiah—98