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1Once the wall was rebuilt and I had erected the doors, the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites were appointed.[#Ne 6:1, 15]
2Over Jerusalem, I put in charge both my brother Hanani and Hananiah, the palace commander, because each was a faithful man and feared God more than many.[#Ne 1:2]
3I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun is hot. Until guards are posted, the doors should be closed and bolted. Likewise, appoint guards from Jerusalem’s inhabitants—each at his post, across from his own house.”
4Now the city was large and spacious, yet the people in it were few since there had been no houses built.
5So my God put an idea in my mind, and I gathered the nobles, the officials, and the people together to conduct a genealogy registration. When I found the book of the genealogical register, it contained the list of those who first came back. I found written in it:
61These were they who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not show their fathers’ houses nor their lineage—whether they were of Israel:[#Ezr 2:59]
64These sought for their fathers’ registration in the genealogical registry, but it was not found. Therefore, they were considered as unclean and removed from the priesthood.
65The magistrate said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things until there was an appointed priest with Urim and Thummim.[#Ex 28:30]
66The whole congregation together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,[#Ezr 2:64]
67besides their male and female servants, which numbered seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five male and female singers.
68Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules, two hundred and forty-five;
69their camels, four hundred and thirty-five; the donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
70Some of the chiefs of the fathers’ households gave to the work. The magistrate gave to the treasury one thousand drachmas of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.[#Ne 8:9; #7:70 About 19 pounds, or 8.4 kilograms.]
71Others of the chiefs of the fathers’ households gave to the treasury for the work twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand two hundred silver minas.[#7:71 About 375 pounds, or 170 kilograms; and in v. 72.; #7:71 About 11/3 tons, or 1.2 metric tons.]
72What the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachmas of gold, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.[#7:72 About 11/4 tons, or 1.1 metric tons.]
73So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel lived in their cities.
When the seventh month came, the Israelites were in their cities.