A reading from the book of Nehemiah.

Now when the wall had been built, and I had set up the doors and the gatekeepers, the singers

and the Levites had been appointed, I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the

castle, charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.

And I said to them,

Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot,

and while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors,

appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

some at their guard-posts, and some in front

of their own homes. The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no

houses had been rebuilt. Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials

and the people to be enrolled by genealogy.

And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it.

These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles,

whom Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon had carried into exile.

They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town. They came with Zerubababell,

Jeshua, Nehemiah, Rehemiah, Nehemiah, Nehomani, Mordechai, Bilshan, Misispyreth, Begvai, Nehum, Bayona.

The number of the men of the people of Israel.

The sons of Peirush, 2,172.

The sons of Sheffataya, 372.

The sons of ERA, 652. The sons of Paheth Moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab,

2,818, the sons of Elam, 1,254, the sons of Zatu, 845, the sons of Zakii, 760, the sons of Binui, 648, the sons of Bebi, 628, the sons of Asgad, 2,322,

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