5. Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it:
6. These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.
7. They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.The number of the Israelite men included:
46. The temple servants included:Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants,Tabbaoth’s descendants,
47. Keros’s descendants,Sia’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,
48. Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants,Shalmai’s descendants,
49. Hanan’s descendants,Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,
50. Reaiah’s descendants, Rezin’s descendants,Nekoda’s descendants,
51. Gazzam’s descendants,Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,
52. Besai’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants,Nephishesim’s descendants,
53. Bakbuk’s descendants,Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,
54. Bazlith’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants,Harsha’s descendants,
55. Barkos’s descendants,Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,
56. Neziah’s descendants, Hatipha’s descendants.
57. The descendants of Solomon’s servants included:Sotai’s descendants, Sophereth’s descendants,Perida’s descendants,
58. Jaala’s descendants,Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,
59. Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants,Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, Amon’s descendants.
61. The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but were unable to prove that their families and ancestors were Israelite:
63. and from the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai — who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.