Ezra2

Ezra chapter two meticulously lists the families and individuals who returned to Judah from Babylonian captivity under the leadership of Zerubbabel and Jeshua. It enumerates the lay people, priests, Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, and servants of Solomon, along with their respective numbers. The chapter also records those whose lineage was uncertain, preventing them from serving as priests, and concludes with the total count of the returning congregation, their livestock, and their initial contributions for the rebuilding of the Temple.

The Returnees and Their Leaders

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These also are the sonnes of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie (whome Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel had caried away vnto Babel) and returned to Ierusalem, and to Iudah, euery one vnto his citie,
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Which came with Zerubbabel, to wit, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel was,

Register of the Lay Israelites

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The sonnes of Parosh, two thousand, an hudreth seuentie and two:
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The sonnes of Shephatiah, three hundreth, seuentie and two:
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The sonnes of Arah, seuen hundreth, and seuentie and fiue:
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The sonnes of Pahath Moab, of the sonnes of Ieshua and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundreth and twelue:
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The sonnes of Elam, a thousande, two hundreth and foure and fiftie:
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The sonnes of Zattu, nine hundreth and fiue and fourtie:
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The sonnes of Zaccai, seuen hundreth and threescore:
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The sonnes of Bani, sixe hundreth and two and fourtie:
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The sonnes of Bebai, sixe hundreth, and three and twentie:
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The sonnes of Azgad a thousand, two hundreth and two and twentie:
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The sonnes of Adonikam, sixe hundreth, three score and sixe:
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The sonnes of Biguai, two thousand, and sixe and fiftie:
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The sonnes of Adin, foure hundreth and foure and fiftie:
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The sonnes of Ater of Hizkiah, ninetie and eight:
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The sonnes of Bezai, three hundreth and three and twentie:
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The sonnes of Iorah, an hudreth and twelue:
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The sonnes of Hasshum, two hundreth and three and twentie:
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The sonnes of Gibbar, ninetie and fiue:
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The sonnes of Beth-lehem, an hundreth and three and twentie:
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The men of Netophah, sixe and fiftie:
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The men of Anothoth, an hundreth and eight and twentie:
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The sonnes of Azmaueth, two and fourtie:
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The sonnes of Kiriath-arim, of Chephirah, and Beeroth, seuen hundreth and three and fourtie:
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The sonnes of Haramah and Gaba, six hundreth, and one and twentie:
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The men of Michmas, an hundreth and two and twentie:
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The sonnes of Beth-el and Ai, two hundreth, and three and twentie:
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The sonnes of Nebo, two and fiftie:
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The sonnes of Magbish, an hundreth and sixe and fiftie:
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The sonnes of the other Elam, a thousand, and two hundreth, and foure and fiftie:
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The sonnes of Harim, three hundreth and twentie:
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The sonnes of Lod-hadid, and Ono, seuen hundreth, and fiue and twentie:
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The sonnes of Iericho, three hundreth and fiue and fourtie:
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The sonnes of Senaah, three thousand, sixe hundreth and thirtie.

The Priests, Levites, and Temple Staff

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The Priests: of the sonnes of Iedaiah of the house of Ieshua, nine hundreth seuentie and three:
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The sonnes of Immer, a thousand and two and fiftie:
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The sonnes of Pashur, a thousand, two hundreth and seuen and fourtie:
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The sonnes of Harim, a thousande and seuenteene.
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The Leuites: the sonnes of Ieshua, and Kadmiel of the sonnes of Hodauiah, seuentie and foure.
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The Singers: the sonnes of Asaph, an hundreth and eight and twentie.
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The sonnes of the porters: the sonnes of Shallum, the sonnes of Ater, the sonnes of Talmon, the sonnes of Akkub, the sonnes of Hatita, the sonnes of Shobai: all were an hundreth and nine and thirtie.
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The Nethinims: the sonnes of Ziha, the sonnes of Hasupha, the sonnes of Tabbaoth,
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The sonnes of Keros, the sonnes of Siaha, the sonnes of Padon,
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The sonnes of Lebanah, the sonnes of Hagabah, the sonnes of Akkub,
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The sonnes of Hagab, the sonnes of Shamlai, the sonnes of Hanan,
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The sonnes of Giddel, the sonnes of Gahar, the sonnes of Reaiah,
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The sonnes of Rezin, the sonnes of Nekoda, the sonnes of Gazzam,
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The sonnes of Vzza, the sonnes of Paseah, the sonnes of Besai,
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The sonnes of Asnah, the sonnes of Meunim, the sonnes of Nephusim,
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The sonnes of Bakbuk, the sonnes of Hakupa, the sonnes of Harhur,
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The sonnes of Bazluth, the sonnes of Mehida, the sonnes of Harsha,
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The sonnes of Barcos, the sonnes of Sisara, the sonnes of Thamah,
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The sonnes of Neziah, the sonnes of Hatipha,
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The sonnes of Salomons seruantes: the sonnes of Sotai, the sonnes of Sophereth, the sonnes of Peruda,
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The sonnes of Iaalah, the sonnes of Darkon, the sonnes of Giddel,
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The sonnes of Shephatiah, the sonnes of Hattil, the sonnes of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the sonnes of Ami.
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All the Nethinims, and the sonnes of Salomons seruants were three hundreth ninetie and two.

Those Whose Status Was Uncertain

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And these went vp from Telmelah, and from Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not discerne their fathers house and their seede, whether they were of Israel.
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The sonnes of Delaiah, the sonnes of Tobiah, the sonnes of Nekoda, six hundreth and two and fiftie.
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And of the sonnes of the Priestes, the sonnes of Habaiah, the sonnes of Coz, the sonnes of Barzillai: which tooke of the daughters of Barzillai the Giliadite to wife, and was called after their name.
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These sought their writing of the genealogies, but they were not founde: therefore were they put from the Priesthood.
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And Tirshatha saide vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy thing, tell there rose vp a Priest with Vrim and Thummim.

The Grand Total of the Congregation

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The whole Congregation together was two and fourtie thousande, three hundreth and threescore,
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Beside their seruants and their maydes: of whome were seuen thousande, three hundreth and seuen and thirtie: and among them were two hundreth singing men and singing women.
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Their horses were seuen hundreth, and sixe and thirtie: their mules, two hundreth and fiue and fourtie:
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Their camels foure hundreth, and fiue and thirtie: their asses, sixe thousand, seuen hundreth and twentie.

Initial Offerings and Settlement

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And certeine of the chiefe fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord, which was in Ierusalem, they offred willingly for the house of God, to set it vp vpon his fundation.
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They gaue after their abilitie vnto the treasure of the worke, euen one and threescore thousand drammes of golde, and fiue thousand pieces of siluer, and an hundreth Priests garments.
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So the Priests and the Leuites, and a certeine of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
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