1 ^lNow these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles ^mwhom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. 2 They came with ⁿZerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and ^oBaanah.

The number of the men of the people of Israel: 3 the sons of ^pParosh, 2,172. 4 The sons of ^qShephatiah, 372. 5 The sons of Arah, 775. 6 The sons of ^rPahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and ^sJoab, 2,812. 7 The sons of ^tElam, 1,254. 8 The sons of ^uZattu, 945. 9 The sons of Zaccai, 760. 10 The sons of Bani, 642. 11 The sons of ^vBebai, 623. 12 The sons of ^wAzgad, 1,222. 13 The sons of ^xAdonikam, 666. 14 The sons of ^yBigvai, 2,056. 15 The sons of ^zAdin, 454. 16 The sons of ^aAter, namely of Hezekiah, 98. 17 The sons of ^bBezai, 323. 18 The sons of Jorah, 112. 19 The sons of Hashum, 223. 20 The sons of Gibbar, 95. 21 The sons of Bethlehem, 123. 22 The men of Netophah, 56. 23 The men of Anathoth, 128. 24 The sons of Azmaveth, 42. 25 The sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743. 26 The sons of Ramah and Geba, 621. 27 The men of Michmas, 122. 28 The men of Bethel and Ai, 223. 29 The sons of Nebo, 52. 30 The sons of Magbish, 156. 31 The sons of the other Elam, 1,254. 32 The sons of Harim, 320. 33 The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725. 34 The sons of Jericho, 345. 35 The sons of Senaah, 3,630.

36 The priests: the sons of ^cJedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973. 37 The sons of Immer, 1,052. 38 The sons of ^dPashhur, 1,247. 39 The sons of Harim, 1,017.

40 The Levites: the sons of ^eJeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74. 41 The singers: the ^fsons of Asaph, 128. 42 The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of ^gShallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of ^hTalmon, the sons of ⁱAkkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all 139.

43 The temple servants: the sons of ^jZiha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, 44 the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon, 45 the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub, 46 the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shamlai, the sons of Hanan, 47 the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah, 48 the sons of Rezin, the sons of ^kNekoda, the sons of Gazzam, 49 the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai, 50 the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim, 51 the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, 52 the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, 53 the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah, 54 the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha.

55 The ^lsons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda, 56 the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, 57 the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the sons of Ami.

58 All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.

59 The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers’ houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel: 60 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, 652. 61 Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of ^mHakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name). 62 These sought their registration among those ⁿenrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, ^oand so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. 63 The ^pgovernor told them that they were ^qnot to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult ^rUrim and Thummim.

64 The whole assembly together was 42,360, 65 besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337, and they had 200 male and female singers. 66 Their horses were 736, their mules were 245, 67 their camels were 435, and their donkeys were 6,720.

68 Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site. 69 According to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work 61,000 darics¹ of gold, 5,000 minas² of silver, and 100 priests’ garments.

70 Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants ^slived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel³ in their towns.

1 When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered ^tas one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then arose ^uJeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the ^valtar of the God of Israel, to offer ^wburnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. 3 They set the altar in its place, for ^xfear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings ^ymorning and evening. 4 And they kept the ^zFeast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number ^aaccording to the rule, as each day required, 5 and after that the ^bregular burnt offerings, the offerings ^cat the new moon and ^dat all the ^eappointed feasts of the Lord, and the offerings of everyone who made a ^ffreewill offering to the Lord. 6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. But the ^gfoundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid. 7 So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring ^hcedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the ⁱgrant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

8 Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, ^jfrom twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the Lord. 9 And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.

10 And when the builders ^klaid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, ^laccording to the directions of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord,

And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. 12 ⁿBut many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, 13 so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.