6. These are the people of the province who returned from the captivity of those exiles whom Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile. They all returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to their own town.
7. They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.The number of the people of Israel:
46. The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,
57. The descendants of Solomon’s servants: Sotai, Sophereth, Perida,
58. Jaala, Darkon, Giddel,
59. Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth-hazzebaim, and Amon.
60. All of the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants totaled 392.
61. The following came up from Tel-Melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but were unable to prove that their family or their descent was from Israel:
62. the descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, 642.
63. And of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai (who had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by his name)
64. looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they weren’t found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
65. The governor ordered that they shouldn’t eat of the most holy food until a priest arose who could consult Urim and Thummim.
66. The whole assembly together totaled 42,360.