Ezra 2
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The List of Returning Exiles
(Nehemiah 7:4–69)

1These also are the sonnes of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie (whome Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel had caried away vnto Babel) and returned to Ierusalem, and to Iudah, euery one vnto his citie, 2Which came with Zerubbabel, to wit, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel was, 3The sonnes of Parosh, two thousand, an hudreth seuentie and two: 4The sonnes of Shephatiah, three hundreth, seuentie and two: 5The sonnes of Arah, seuen hundreth, and seuentie and fiue: 6The sonnes of Pahath Moab, of the sonnes of Ieshua and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundreth and twelue: 7The sonnes of Elam, a thousande, two hundreth and foure and fiftie: 8The sonnes of Zattu, nine hundreth and fiue and fourtie: 9The sonnes of Zaccai, seuen hundreth and threescore: 10The sonnes of Bani, sixe hundreth and two and fourtie: 11The sonnes of Bebai, sixe hundreth, and three and twentie: 12The sonnes of Azgad a thousand, two hundreth and two and twentie: 13The sonnes of Adonikam, sixe hundreth, three score and sixe: 14The sonnes of Biguai, two thousand, & sixe and fiftie: 15The sonnes of Adin, foure hundreth and foure and fiftie: 16The sonnes of Ater of Hizkiah, ninetie & eight: 17The sonnes of Bezai, three hundreth and three and twentie: 18The sonnes of Iorah, an hudreth & twelue: 19The sonnes of Hasshum, two hundreth and three and twentie: 20The sonnes of Gibbar, ninetie and fiue: 21The sonnes of Beth-lehem, an hundreth and three and twentie: 22The men of Netophah, sixe and fiftie: 23The men of Anothoth, an hundreth and eight and twentie: 24The sonnes of Azmaueth, two & fourtie: 25The sonnes of Kiriath-arim, of Chephirah, and Beeroth, seuen hundreth & three & fourtie: 26The sonnes of Haramah and Gaba, six hundreth, and one and twentie: 27The men of Michmas, an hundreth & two and twentie: 28The sonnes of Beth-el & Ai, two hundreth, and three and twentie: 29The sonnes of Nebo, two and fiftie: 30The sonnes of Magbish, an hundreth and sixe and fiftie: 31The sonnes of the other Elam, a thousand, and two hundreth, and foure and fiftie: 32The sonnes of Harim, three hundreth and twentie: 33The sonnes of Lod-hadid, and Ono, seuen hundreth, and fiue and twentie: 34The sonnes of Iericho, three hundreth and fiue and fourtie: 35The sonnes of Senaah, three thousand, sixe hundreth and thirtie.

36The Priests: of the sonnes of Iedaiah of the house of Ieshua, nine hundreth seuentie and three: 37The sonnes of Immer, a thousand and two and fiftie: 38The sonnes of Pashur, a thousand, two hundreth and seuen and fourtie: 39The sonnes of Harim, a thousande and seuenteene.

40The Leuites: the sonnes of Ieshua, and Kadmiel of the sonnes of Hodauiah, seuentie and foure. 41The Singers: the sonnes of Asaph, an hundreth and eight and twentie. 42The sonnes of the porters: the sonnes of Shallum, the sonnes of Ater, the sonnes of Talmon, the sonnes of Akkub, the sonnes of Hatita, the sonnes of Shobai: all were an hundreth and nine and thirtie.

43The Nethinims: the sonnes of Ziha, the sonnes of Hasupha, the sonnes of Tabbaoth, 44The sonnes of Keros, the sonnes of Siaha, the sonnes of Padon, 45The sonnes of Lebanah, the sonnes of Hagabah, the sonnes of Akkub, 46The sonnes of Hagab, the sonnes of Shamlai, the sonnes of Hanan, 47The sonnes of Giddel, the sonnes of Gahar, the sonnes of Reaiah, 48The sonnes of Rezin, the sonnes of Nekoda, the sonnes of Gazzam, 49The sonnes of Vzza, the sonnes of Paseah, the sonnes of Besai, 50The sonnes of Asnah, the sonnes of Meunim, the sonnes of Nephusim, 51The sonnes of Bakbuk, the sonnes of Hakupa, the sonnes of Harhur, 52The sonnes of Bazluth, the sonnes of Mehida, the sonnes of Harsha, 53The sonnes of Barcos, the sonnes of Sisara, the sonnes of Thamah, 54The sonnes of Neziah, the sonnes of Hatipha,

55The sonnes of Salomons seruantes: the sonnes of Sotai, the sonnes of Sophereth, the sonnes of Peruda, 56The sonnes of Iaalah, the sonnes of Darkon, the sonnes of Giddel, 57The sonnes of Shephatiah, the sonnes of Hattil, the sonnes of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the sonnes of Ami.

58All the Nethinims, and the sonnes of Salomons seruants were three hundreth ninetie & two.

59And these went vp from Telmelah, and from Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not discerne their fathers house and their seede, whether they were of Israel. 60The sonnes of Delaiah, the sonnes of Tobiah, the sonnes of Nekoda, six hundreth and two and fiftie.

61And of the sonnes of the Priestes, the sonnes of Habaiah, the sonnes of Coz, the sonnes of Barzillai: which tooke of the daughters of Barzillai the Giliadite to wife, and was called after their name. 62These sought their writing of the genealogies, but they were not founde: therefore were they put from the Priesthood. 63And Tirshatha saide vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy thing, tell there rose vp a Priest with Vrim and Thummim.

64The whole Congregation together was two and fourtie thousande, three hundreth and threescore, 65Beside their seruants and their maydes: of whome were seuen thousande, three hundreth & seuen and thirtie: and among them were two hundreth singing men and singing women. 66Their horses were seuen hundreth, & sixe and thirtie: their mules, two hundreth and fiue and fourtie: 67Their camels foure hundreth, and fiue and thirtie: their asses, sixe thousand, seuen hundreth and twentie.

Offerings by the Exiles
(Exodus 38:21–31; Nehemiah 7:70–73)

68And certeine of the chiefe fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord, which was in Ierusalem, they offred willingly for the house of God, to set it vp vpon his fundation. 69They gaue after their abilitie vnto the treasure of the worke, euen one and threescore thousand drammes of golde, and fiue thousand pieces of siluer, and an hundreth Priests garments.

70So the Priests and the Leuites, and a certeine of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.


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