People’s Open Bible
Ezra 2
Ezra Returns with Exiles
Open in the reader →1These are the sons of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city.
2who came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
3the sons of Parosh, 2,172.
4the sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
5the sons of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
6the sons of Pahath-moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812.
7the sons of Elam, 1,254.
8the sons of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.
9the sons of Zakkai, seven hundred and sixty.
10the sons of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
11the sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
12the sons of Azgad, 1,222.
13the sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.
14the sons of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.
15the sons of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.
16the sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
17the sons of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.
18the sons of Jorah, one hundred and twelve.
19the sons of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three.
20the sons of Gibbar, ninety-five.
21the sons of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
22the men of Netophah, fifty-six.
23the men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
24The sons of Azmaveth: forty-two.
25The sons of Kiriath-arim, Kephirah, and Beeroth: 743.
26the sons of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
27The men of Mikmas: one hundred twenty-two.
28The men of Bethel and Ai: two hundred twenty-three.
29the sons of Nebo, fifty-two.
30the sons of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
31the sons of another Elam, 1,254.
32the sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
33The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven hundred twenty-five.
34The sons of Jericho: three hundred forty-five.
35the sons of Senaah, three thousand six hundred and thirty.
36The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973.
37the sons of Immer, 1,052.
38the sons of Pashhur, 1,247.
39the sons of Harim, 1,017.
40The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
41The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
42The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, all together one hundred thirty-nine.
43The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth.
44the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon.
45the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub.
46the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shamlai, the sons of Hanan.
47the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah.
48the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam;
49the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai.
50the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim.
51the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur.
52the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha—
53the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah.
54the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.
55the sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda.
56the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel.
57the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pokereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Ami.
58All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.
59And these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to declare their fathers’ house and their offspring, whether they were from Israel.
60the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda: six hundred fifty-two.
61And from among the sons of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.
62These sought their record among those enrolled by genealogy, but they were not found, and they were excluded from the priesthood.
63And the governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest should arise with Urim and Thummim.
64The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
65besides their male and female servants, these were 7,337; and they had 200 male and female singers.
66Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five.
67their camels, 435; their donkeys, 6,720.
68And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses, when they came to the house of Yahweh that is in Jerusalem, gave freewill offerings for the house of God, to set it up on its foundation.
69According to their ability they gave to the treasury for the work: 61,000 gold darics, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priests’ tunics.
70So the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their cities, and all Israel lived in their cities.
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