Nehemiah 7 — TOJB

7Verse 1Now it came to pass, when the chomah was rebuilt, and I had set up the dalatot, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levi'im were appointed,^{Verse 2}That I gave my brother Chanani, along with Chananyah (the commander of the citadel), charge over Yerushalayim, for he was an ish emes, and feared HaElohim more than many.^{Verse 3}And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Yerushalayim be opened until the shemesh be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the dalatot, and bar them, and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, every one in his watch, and every one to be near his bais.^{Verse 4}Now the Ir was large and gedolah, but HaAm were few therein, and the batim (houses) were not rebuilt.^{Verse 5}And Elohai put into mine lev to gather together the nobles, and the officials, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a Sefer HaYachash (record of the genealogy) of them which came up at the first, and found written therein:^{Verse 6}These are the people of the province, that went up out of the Golus captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nevukhadnetzar Melech Bavel had carried away, and came again to Yerushalayim and to Yehudah, everyone unto his town;^{Verse 7}Who came with Zerubavel, Yeshua, Nechemyah, Azaryah, Ra'amyah, Nachamani, Mordechai, Bilshan, Misperet, Bigvai, Nechum, and Ba'anah. The number of the men of the people of Yisroel was this:^{Verse 8}The Bnei Parosh, 2,172.^{Verse 9}The Bnei Shephatyah, 372.^{Verse 10}The Bnei Arach, 652.^{Verse 11}The Bnei Pachat-Moav, of the Bnei Yeshua and Yoav, 2,818.^{Verse 12}The Bnei Eilam, 1,254.^{Verse 13}The Bnei Zattu, 845.^{Verse 14}The Bnei Zakai, 760.^{Verse 15}The Bnei Binnui, 648.^{Verse 16}The Bnei Bevai, 628.^{Verse 17}The Bnei Azgad, 2,322.^{Verse 18}The Bnei Adonikam, 667.^{Verse 19}The Bnei Bigvai, 2,067.^{Verse 20}The Bnei Adin, 655.^{Verse 21}The Bnei Ater of Chizkiyah, 98.^{Verse 22}The Bnei Chashum, 328.^{Verse 23}The Bnei Betzai, 324.^{Verse 24}The Bnei Chariph, 112.^{Verse 25}The Bnei Giv'on, 95.^{Verse 26}The men of Beit-Lechem and Netophah, 188.^{Verse 27}The men of Anatot, 128.^{Verse 28}The men of Beit-Azmavet, 42.^{Verse 29}The men of Kiryat-Ye'arim, Kephirah, and Be'erot, 743.^{Verse 30}The men of Ramah and Geva, 621.^{Verse 31}The men of Michmas, 122.^{Verse 32}The men of Beit-El and Ai, 123.^{Verse 33}The men of the other Nevo, 52.^{Verse 34}The people of the other Eilam, 1,254.^{Verse 35}The Bnei Charim, 320.^{Verse 36}The Bnei Yericho, 345.^{Verse 37}The Bnei Lod, Chadid, and Ono, 721.^{Verse 38}The Bnei Senaah, 3,930.^{Verse 39}The kohanim; the Bnei Yedayah, of the Bais Yeshua, 973.^{Verse 40}The Bnei Immer, 1,052.^{Verse 41}The Bnei Pashchur, 1,247.^{Verse 42}The Bnei Charim, 1,017.^{Verse 43}The Levi'im; the Bnei Yeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the Bnei Hodvah, 74.^{Verse 44}The singers; the Bnei Asaph, 148.^{Verse 45}The gatekeepers; the Bnei Shallum, the Bnei Ater, the Bnei Talmon, the Bnei Akkuv, the Bnei Chatita, the Bnei Shovai, 138.^{Verse 46}The Netinim;⁺the Bnei Tzicha, the Bnei Chasupha, the Bnei Taba'ot,^{Verse 47}The Bnei Keros, the Bnei Sia, the Bnei Padon,^{Verse 48}The Bnei Levanah, the Bnei Chagavah, the Bnei Shalmai,^{Verse 49}The Bnei Chanan, the Bnei Giddel, the Bnei Gachar,^{Verse 50}The Bnei Reayah, the Bnei Retzin, the Bnei Nekoda,^{Verse 51}The Bnei Gazzam, the Bnei Uzza, the Bnei Paseach,^{Verse 52}The Bnei Besai, the Bnei Me'unim, the Bnei Nephushesim,^{Verse 53}The Bnei Bakbuk, the Bnei Chakupha, the Bnei Charchur,^{Verse 54}The Bnei Batzlit, the Bnei Mechida, the Bnei Charsha,^{Verse 55}The Bnei Barkos, the Bnei Sisra, the Bnei Temach,^{Verse 56}The Bnei Netziyach, the Bnei Chatipha.^{Verse 57}The Bnei Avdei Sh'lomo; the Bnei Sotai, the Bnei Sopheret, the Bnei Perida,^{+Verse 58}The Bnei Ya'la, the Bnei Darkon, the Bnei Giddel,^{Verse 59}The Bnei Shephatyah, the Bnei Chattil, the Bnei Pokheret-Hatzvayim, the Bnei Amon.^{Verse 60}All the Netinim, and the Bnei Avdei Sh'lomo, were three hundred ninety and two.^{Verse 61}And these were they which went up also from Tel-Melach, Tel-Charsha, Keruv, Addon, and Immer, but they could not show their bais avot, nor their zera, whether they were of Yisroel.^{Verse 62}The Bnei Delayah, the Bnei Toviyah, the Bnei Nekoda, 642.^{Verse 63}And of the kohanim; the Bnei Chavayah, the Bnei Hakotz, the Bnei Barzillai, which took one of the banot of Barzillai the Gil'adi to wife, and was named after their shem.^{Verse 64}These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they, as polluted, put from the Kehunah (Priesthood).^{Verse 65}And the Tirshata said unto them that they should not eat of the kodesh hakodashim until there stood up a kohen with Urim and Tummim.^{Verse 66}The kol hakahal together was 42,360,^{Verse 67}not counting their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were 7,337; and they had 245 meshorarim (singing men) and meshorarot (singing women).^{Verse 68}Their susim, seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;^{Verse 69}Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; six thousand seven hundred and twenty donkeys.^{Verse 70}And some of the chief of the avot gave unto the work. The Tirshata (governor) gave to the treasury a thousand drachmas of zahav, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty kasenos (garments) for the Kohanim.^{Verse 71}And some of the chief of the avot gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand drachmas of zahav, and two thousand and two hundred manim of kesef.^{Verse 72}And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachmas of zahav, and two thousand manim of kesef, and threescore and seven kasenos for the Kohanim.^{Verse 73}So the Kohanim, and the Levi'im, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Netinim, and kol Yisroel, dwelt in their towns; 8:1and when the seventh month⁺came, the Bnei Yisroel were in their towns.