Ezra 2 CSB

1. These now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

2. They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included

3. Parosh’s descendants 2,172

4. Shephatiah’s descendants 372

5. Arah’s descendants 775

6. Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,812

7. Elam’s descendants 1,254

8. Zattu’s descendants 945

9. Zaccai’s descendants 760

10. Bani’s descendants 642

11. Bebai’s descendants 623

12. Azgad’s descendants 1,222

13. Adonikam’s descendants 666

14. Bigvai’s descendants 2,056

15. Adin’s descendants 454

16. Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah 98

17. Bezai’s descendants 323

18. Jorah’s descendants 112

19. Hashum’s descendants 223

20. Gibbar’s descendants 95

21. Bethlehem’speople 123

22. Netophah’s men 56

23. Anathoth’s men 128

24. Azmaveth’s people 42

25. Kiriatharim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s people 743

26. Ramah’sand Geba’s people 621

27. Michmas’s men 122

28. Bethel’s and Ai’smen 223

29. Nebo’s people 52

30. Magbish’s people 156

31. the other Elam’s people 1,254

32. Harim’s people 320

33. Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people 725

34. Jericho’speople 345

35. Senaah’s people 3,630

36. The priests included Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua 973

37. Immer’s descendants 1,052

38. Pashhur’s descendants 1,247

39. and Harim’s descendants 1,017

40. The Levites included Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants from Hodaviah’s descendants 74

41. The singers included Asaph’sdescendants 128

42. The gatekeepers’ descendants included Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants, in all 139

43. The temple servants included Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants, Tabbaoth’s descendants,

44. Keros’s descendants, Siaha’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,

45. Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants,

46. Hagab’s descendants, Shalmai’s descendants, Hanan’s descendants,

47. Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants, Reaiah’s descendants,

48. Rezin’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,

49. Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants, Besai’s descendants,

50. Asnah’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants, Nephusim’s descendants,

51. Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,

52. Bazluth’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,

53. Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,

54. Neziah’s descendants, and Hatipha’s descendants.

55. The descendants of Solomon’s servants included Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants, Peruda’s descendants,

56. Jaalah’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,

57. Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants.

58. All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants 392.

59. The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their ancestral families and their lineage were Israelite:

60. Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants 652

61. and from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai — who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and who bore their name.

62. These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.

63. The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.

64. The whole combined assembly numbered 42,360

65. not including their 7,337 male and female servants, and their 200 male and female singers.

66. They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

67. 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

68. After they arrived at the Lord’s house in Jerusalem, some of the family heads gave freewill offerings for the house of God in order to have it rebuilt on its original site.

69. Based on what they could give, they gave 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 priestly garments to the treasury for the project.

70. The priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, and some of the people settled in their towns, and the rest of Israel settled in their towns.