Nehemiah 7 - Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

Gatekeepers Are Appointed for the City

7 When the wall had been built and I had installed the doors, and when the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, ² I placed my brother Hanani along with Hananiah, the commander of the citadel, in charge of Jerusalem, because he was a trustworthy man and feared God more than many. ³ I^[a] said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem should not be left open until the heat of the day, but while the guards are still on duty, they are to shut the doors and secure them. Appoint guards from the residents of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their houses.”

Repopulating the City

⁴ Now the city was wide open and spacious, but there were few people in it, and no houses were being built. ⁵ So my God placed into my heart a plan to gather the nobles, the officials, and the people so they could be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who were the first to come up from Babylon. I found this written in it:

⁶ These are the people^[b] of the province who went up from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had exiled. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each man to his city. ⁷ These were the people who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Ra’amiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Ba’anah.^[c]

This was the number of men from the people of Israel:^[d]

8 the male descendants[e] of Parosh:	2,172
9 the male descendants of Shephatiah:	372
10 the male descendants of Arah:	652
11 the male descendants of Pahath Moab through the descendants of Jeshua and Joab:	2,818
12 the male descendants of Elam:	1,254
13 the male descendants of Zattu:	845
14 the male descendants of Zakkai:	760
15 the male descendants of Binnui:	648
16 the male descendants of Bebai:	628
17 the male descendants of Azgad:	2,322
18 the male descendants of Adonikam:	667
19 the male descendants of Bigvai:	2,067
20 the male descendants of Adin:	655
21 the male descendants of Ater through Hezekiah:	98
22 the male descendants of Hashum:	328
23 the male descendants of Bezai:	324
24 the male descendants of Hariph:	112
25 the citizens[f] of Gibeon:	95
26 the men of Bethlehem and Netophah:	188
27 the men of Anathoth:	128
28 the men of Beth Azmaveth:	42
29 the men of Kiriath Jearim, Kephirah, and Be’eroth:	743
30 the men of Ramah and Geba:	621
31 the men of Mikmash:	122
32 the men of Bethel and Ai:	123
33 the men of the other Nebo:	52
34 the citizens of the other Elam:	1,254
35 the citizens of Harim:	320
36 the citizens of Jericho:	345
37 the citizens of Lod, Hadid, and Ono:	721
38 the citizens of Sena’ah:	3,930
39 The priests:
the descendants of Jedaiah through the house of Jeshua:	973
40 the descendants of Immer:	1,052
41 the descendants of Pashhur:	1,247
42 the descendants of Harim:	1,017

⁴³ The Levites:
the descendants of Jeshua through Kadmiel through the descendants of Hodaviah: 74
⁴⁴ the singers from the descendants of Asaph: 148
⁴⁵ the gatekeepers from the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai: 138.

⁴⁶ The temple servants:
the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha,
the descendants of Tabbaoth, ⁴⁷ the descendants of Keros,
the descendants of Sia, the descendants of Padon,
⁴⁸ the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah,^[g]
the descendants of Shalmai,^{[h] 49} the descendants of Hanan,
the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar,
⁵⁰ the descendants of Reaiah, the descendants of Rezin,
the descendants of Nekoda, ⁵¹ the descendants of Gazzam,
the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah,
⁵² the descendants of Besai,^[i] the descendants of Meunim,
the descendants of Nephisim,^{[j] 53} the descendants of Bakbuk,
the descendants of Hakupha, the descendants of Harhur,
⁵⁴ the descendants of Bazlith, the descendants of Mehida,
the descendants of Harsha, ⁵⁵ the descendants of Barkos,
the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,
⁵⁶ the descendants of Neziah, and the descendants of Hatipha.

⁵⁷ The descendants of the servants of Solomon:
the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth,
the descendants of Perida, ⁵⁸ the descendents of Ja’alah,
the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel,
⁵⁹ the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil,
the descendants of Pokereth Hazzebaim, the descendants of Amon.

⁶⁰ The total of the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants was 392.

⁶¹ The following are the people who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer. They were not to prove their ancestry or descent—whether they were from Israel:

⁶² the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, the descendants of Nekoda: 642,
⁶³ and from the priests: the descendants of Habaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai, that is, from a man who married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and so was called by their name.

⁶⁴ These people searched for their genealogical records, but they could not find them, so they were disqualified from the priesthood. ⁶⁵ The governor told them that they should not eat from the most holy sacrifices until a priest would arise who could serve with Urim and Thummim.

⁶⁶ The entire assembly together totaled 42,360, ⁶⁷ not counting their male slaves and their female slaves, who numbered 7,337. They also had 245^[k] male and female singers. ⁶⁸ They had 736 horses, 245 mules,^{[l] 69} 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

⁷⁰ Some of the heads of the families gave support for the work.
The governor gave to the treasury:
gold darics: 1,000^[m]
bowls: 50
garments for the priests: 530.
⁷¹ Some of the heads of the families gave this to the treasury for the work:
gold darics: 20,000
silver minas: 2,200.^[n]
72 What the rest of the people gave was this:
gold darics: 20,000
silver minas: 2,000
and garments for the priests: 67.

⁷³ The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, and the temple servants, that is, all Israel, settled in their cities.

Footnotes

1. Nehemiah 7:3 I is the reading in the margin of the Hebrew text. It is supported by ancient versions. The main Hebrew reading is he.
2. Nehemiah 7:6 Literally sons
3. Nehemiah 7:7 A number of the names in this list vary in form from the names in the parallel list in Ezra 2.
4. Nehemiah 7:7 In this list and the parallel list in Ezra there are many variants of names and numbers. The translation notes only some of the more important variants.
5. Nehemiah 7:8 Literally sons
6. Nehemiah 7:25 Literally sons
7. Nehemiah 7:48 At this point this list is missing two names that are present in Ezra 2:45-46: Akkub and Hagab.
8. Nehemiah 7:48 Variant Shamlai
9. Nehemiah 7:52 At this point the list in Nehemiah is missing a name present in Ezra 2:50: Asnah.
10. Nehemiah 7:52 Many of the names in these lists, including Nephusim, have variant spellings. The most common variant is between i and u, which look very much alike in some phases of Hebrew script.
11. Nehemiah 7:67 The corresponding number in Ezra 2:65 is 200.
12. Nehemiah 7:68 Many Hebrew manuscripts do not have the reference to horses and mules. Perhaps the repetition of the number 245 led the Hebrew copyist to accidently skip these words.
13. Nehemiah 7:70 A daric is a unit of weight that appears in post-exilic books. It is a Persian term, equal to the Greek drachma, about a third of an ounce. It is also the name of a Persian gold coin.
14. Nehemiah 7:71 Estimates of the weight of a mina very widely, from twenty to thirty-five ounces.