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Ezra (2 Esdras)

Chapter 17

¹ And it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, ² that I gave charge to Ananias my brother, and Ananias the ruler of the palace, over Jerusalem: for he was a true man, and one that feared God beyond many. ³ And I said to them, The gates of Jerusalem shall not be opened till sunrise; and while they are still watching, let the doors be shut, and bolted; and set watches of them that dwell in Jerusalem, [every] man at his post, and [every] man over against his house.

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⁴ Now the city [was] wide and large; and the people [were] few in it, and the houses were not built. ⁵ And God put [it] into my heart, and I gathered the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, into companies: and I found a register of the company that came up first, and I found written in it as follows:

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⁶ Now these [are] the children of the country, that came up from captivity, of the number which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away, and they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, [every] man to his city; ⁷ with Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and Nehemiah, Azariah, and Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Ezra, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah, Masphar, men of the people of Israel.

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⁸ The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two.

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⁹ The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.

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¹⁰ The children of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two.

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¹¹ The children of Pahath-moab, with the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand six hundred and eighteen.

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¹² The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

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¹³ The children of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five.

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¹⁴ The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.

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¹⁵ The children of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight.

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¹⁶ The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight.

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¹⁷ The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two.

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¹⁸ The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven.

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¹⁹ The children of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven.

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²⁰ The children of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five.

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²¹ The children of Ater, [the son] of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

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²² The children of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight.

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²³ The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four.

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²⁴ The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve: the children of Asen, two hundred and twenty-three.

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²⁵ The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.

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²⁶ The children of Bethlehem, a hundred and twenty-three: the children of Netophah, fifty-six.

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²⁷ The children of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.

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²⁸ The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.

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²⁹ The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.

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³⁰ The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty.

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³¹ The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two.

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³² The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.

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³³ The men of Nebo, a hundred and fifty-two.

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³⁴ The men of Elam-ar, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two.

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³⁵ The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

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³⁶ The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.

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³⁷ The children of Lod-hadid and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.

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³⁸ The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

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³⁹ The priests; the sons of Jedaiah, [pertaining] to the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

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⁴⁰ The children of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two.

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⁴¹ The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven.

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⁴² The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

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⁴³ The Levites; the children of Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.

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⁴⁴ The singers; the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.

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⁴⁵ The porters; the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-eight.

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⁴⁶ The Nathinim; the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, ⁴⁷ the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, ⁴⁸ the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai, ⁴⁹ the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, ⁵⁰ the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, ⁵¹ the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, ⁵² the children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim, ⁵³ the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, ⁵⁴ the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, ⁵⁵ the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, ⁵⁶ the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. ⁵⁷ The children of the servants of Solomon; the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, ⁵⁸ the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, ⁵⁹ the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth, the children of Hazzebaim, the children of Amon. ⁶⁰ All the Nathinim, and children of the servants of Solomon, [were] three hundred and ninety-two.

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⁶¹ And these went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, Immer: but they could not declare the houses of their families, or their seed, whether they were of Israel. ⁶² The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.

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⁶³ And of the priests; the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, for they took wives of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and they were called by their name. ⁶⁴ These sought the pedigree of their company, and it was not found, and they were removed [as polluted] from the priesthood. ⁶⁵ And the Athersastha said, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until a priest should stand up to give light.

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⁶⁶ And all the congregation was about forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, ⁶⁷ besides their menservants and their maidservants: these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and the singing men and singing women, two hundred and forty-five. ⁶⁹ Two thousand seven hundred asses.

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⁷⁰ And part of the heads of families gave into the treasury to Nehemiah for the work a thousand pieces of gold, fifty bowls, and thirty priests’ [garments]. ⁷¹ And [some] of the heads of families gave into the treasuries of the work, twenty thousand pieces of gold, and two thousand three hundred pounds of silver. ⁷² And the rest of the people gave twenty thousand pieces of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ [garments].

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⁷³ And the priests, and Levites, and porters, and singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nathinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities.

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