1 Após a conclusão da muralha e depois de termos colocado as portas nas entradas e nomeado os porteiros, os cantores e os levitas, dei a responsabilidade do governo de Jerusalém ao meu irmão Hanani, e a Hananias dei o comando da fortaleza - um homem muito fiel que reverenciava o Senhor mais do que muitos outros.3 Dei-lhes instruções para não abrirem as portas de Jerusalém antes do nascer do Sol, e para as fecharem e trancarem enquanto os guardas se mantinham de vigilância. Também ordenei que os guardas residissem em Jerusalém, e que deviam estar nos seus postos em tempos regulamentares e que cada proprietário de moradia construída junto da muralha deveria ele próprio montar vigilância à secção adjacente à sua casa.4 Porque a cidade era muito grande, mas a sua população reduzida; havia relativamente poucas casas edificadas através da cidade.5 Então o meu Deus pôs-me no coração convocar todos os líderes da cidade, juntamente com os cidadãos comuns, para se fazerem os registos. Porque eu tinha encontrado o registo das genealogias dos que tinham retornado anteriormente a Judá. Estava lá escrito assim:6 Estão aqui os nomes dos judeus que retornaram a Judá, depois de terem sido desterrados pelo rei Nabucodonozor de Babilónia.7 Outros que voltaram nessa mesma altura foram:60 Ao todo, os auxiliares do templo e os descendentes funcionários reais de Salomão eram 392.61 Um outro grupo regressou a Jerusalém, nessa altura, vindo das cidades pérsicas de Tel-Mela, Tel-Harsa, Querube, Adom, Imer. Mas perderam as suas genealogias e não puderam provar as suas linhagens judias; foram os sub-clãs de Delaías, Tobias e Necoda - num total de 642.63 Haviam também vários sub-clãs de sacerdotes, trazendo os nomes de Hobaías, Coz e Barzilai (que casou com uma das filhas de Barzilai o gileadita e tomou o nome da sua família), cujas genealogias se tinham perdido.65 Por isso o governador lhes disse que não comessem da comida consagrada até que houvesse um sacerdote que encontrasse a decisão final consultando o urim e tumim.66 Havia pois um total de 42.360 cidadãos que regressaram a Judá nesse tempo; vieram também 7.337 escravos e 245 cantores do coro, tanto homens como mulheres. Trouxeram consigo 736 cavalos, 245 mulas, 435 camelos e 6.720 jumentos.70 Alguns dos seus líderes ofereceram donativos para a obra. O governador deu oito quilos e meio de ouro, cinquenta bacias, e mais ainda 530 vestes sacerdotais. Outros chefes deram cento e setenta quilos de ouro, mais mil e duzentos quilos de prata, e o resto do povo deu cento e setenta quilos de ouro, mil e duzentos quilos de prata e 67 vestes sacerdotais.73 Os sacerdotes, os levitas, os porteiros, os elementos do coro, os serviçais do templo e o resto do povo instalaram-se pois nas suas respectivas povoações através de toda a terra de Judá. Quando chegou o sétimo mês, já os israelitas estavam a habitar nas suas respectivas localidades.

1 Now 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 my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.3 And I said to them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun shall be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.4 Now the city was large and great: but the people in it were few, and the houses were not built.5 And my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them who came up at the first, and found written in it,6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city;7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;8 The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy two.9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy two.10 The children of Arah, six hundred and fifty two.11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty four.13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred and forty five.14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.15 The children of Binnui, six hundred and forty eight.16 The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty eight.17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty two.18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty seven.19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty seven.20 The children of Adin, six hundred and fifty five.21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety eight.22 The children of Hashum, three hundred and twenty eight.23 The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty four.24 The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.25 The children of Gibeon, ninety five.26 The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty eight.27 The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty eight.28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty two.29 The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty three.30 The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred and twenty one.31 The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty two.32 The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty three.33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty two.34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty four.35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.36 The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty five.37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty one.38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.39 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy three.40 The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty two.41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred and forty seven.42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy four.44 The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty eight.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.46 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, 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 Phaseah,52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,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 Tamah,56 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.57 The children of Solomon's servants: 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 of Zebaim, the children of Amon.60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety two.61 And these were they who went up also from Tel-mela, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their fathers house, nor 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.63 And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, who took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite for a wife, and was called after their name.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 priesthood.65 And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there should stand up a priest with Urim and Thummim.66 The whole congregation together was forty two thousand three hundred and sixty.67 Besides their man-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty seven: and they had two hundred and forty five singing-men and singing-women.68 Their horses, seven hundred and thirty six: their mules, two hundred and forty five:69 Their camels, four hundred and thirty five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.70 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.71 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty seven priests' garments.73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.