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And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found that the names were written therein,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>These are the people of the province who went up out of the captivity, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Those who came up with Zerubbabel: Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamael, Mordecai, Belshan, Mespereth, Bigvai, Nahum, and Baanah. The number of men of the people of Israel was this: <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>The descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>The descendants of Shephatiah, three thousand and seventy-two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>The descendants of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>The descendants of Shultan-moab, of the descendants of Joshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>The descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>The descendants of Zattu, eight hundred and fifty-five. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>The descendants of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>The descendants of Bani, six hundred and forty-eight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>The descendants of Bachi, six hundred and twenty-eight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>The descendants of Azgar, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>The descendants of Arhikom, six hundred and sixty-seven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>The descendants of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>The descendants of Adon, six hundred and fifty-five. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>The descendants of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>The descendants of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>The descendants of Bezel, three hundred and twenty-four. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>The descendants of Horam, one hundred and twelve. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>The descendants of Gibeon, ninety-five. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight? <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>The men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>The men of Beth-ramoth, forty-two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>The men of Beth-naarin, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>The men of Geba and Ramtha, seven hundred and twenty-one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>The men of Beth-el and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>The men of Nebo, fifty-two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>The descendants of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-35.htm#aramaic"><b>35</b></a></span>The descendants of Harem, three hundred and twenty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-36.htm#aramaic"><b>36</b></a></span>The descendants of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-37.htm#aramaic"><b>37</b></a></span>The descendants of Lod, Hadir, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-38.htm#aramaic"><b>38</b></a></span>The descendants of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-39.htm#aramaic"><b>39</b></a></span>The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah, of the house of Joshua, nine hundred and seventy-three. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-40.htm#aramaic"><b>40</b></a></span>The descendants of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-41.htm#aramaic"><b>41</b></a></span>The descendants of Pashur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-42.htm#aramaic"><b>42</b></a></span>The descendants of Hadom, one thousand and seventeen.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-43.htm#aramaic"><b>43</b></a></span>The Levites: the descendants of Joshua, of Kadmiel, and of the descendants of Hodiah, seventy-four. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-44.htm#aramaic"><b>44</b></a></span>The singers: the descendants of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-45.htm#aramaic"><b>45</b></a></span>The porters: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Altman, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, the descendants of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-46.htm#aramaic"><b>46</b></a></span>The Nethanites: the descendants of Azha, the descendants of Hashupha, the descendants of Tabboath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-47.htm#aramaic"><b>47</b></a></span>The descendants of Keros, the descendants of Sia, the descendants of Paron. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-48.htm#aramaic"><b>48</b></a></span>The descendants of Lebana, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Shalmai. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-49.htm#aramaic"><b>49</b></a></span>The descendants of Hanan, the descendants of Ada, the descendants of Hagar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-50.htm#aramaic"><b>50</b></a></span>The descendants of Ana, the descendants of Dizon, the descendants of Deborah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-51.htm#aramaic"><b>51</b></a></span>The descendants of Gazzam, the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Phaseah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-52.htm#aramaic"><b>52</b></a></span>The descendants of Besai, the descendants of Methanim, the descendants of Nephusin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-53.htm#aramaic"><b>53</b></a></span>The descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha, the descendants of Harhur. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-54.htm#aramaic"><b>54</b></a></span>The descendants of Bazlith, the descendants of Mehadia, the descendants of Harsha. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-55.htm#aramaic"><b>55</b></a></span>The descendants of Bezuk, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Tamah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-56.htm#aramaic"><b>56</b></a></span>The descendants of Neziah, the descendants of Hatopha.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-57.htm#aramaic"><b>57</b></a></span>The descendants of Solomon's servants: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-58.htm#aramaic"><b>58</b></a></span>The descendants of Jaala, the descendants of Daron, the descendants of Giddel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-59.htm#aramaic"><b>59</b></a></span>The descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Bachrut, the descendants of Zobin, the descendants of Amon.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-60.htm#aramaic"><b>60</b></a></span>All Nethanites and descendants of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-61.htm#aramaic"><b>61</b></a></span>These were those who came up from Tel-milkha to Tel-ava and Kerob, and they spoke, but they could not show their father's genealogy nor their descent, whether they were of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-62.htm#aramaic"><b>62</b></a></span>The descendants of Banai, the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, the descendants of Zekora, six hundred and forty-two.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-63.htm#aramaic"><b>63</b></a></span>And of the priests: the descendants of Hananiah, the descendants of Koz, the descendants of Barzillai, who took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife and was called after their name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-64.htm#aramaic"><b>64</b></a></span>These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found; therefore they were barred from the priesthood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-65.htm#aramaic"><b>65</b></a></span>And the elders of the priests said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things until there should rise a high priest who would make an inquiry and see about the matter.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-66.htm#aramaic"><b>66</b></a></span>The whole congregation together was forty-two thousand four hundred and seventy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-67.htm#aramaic"><b>67</b></a></span>Besides their menservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-three; and they had two hundred and forty-five attendants, male and female. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-68.htm#aramaic"><b>68</b></a></span>Their camels were four hundred and thirty-five; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-69.htm#aramaic"><b>69</b></a></span>Their asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-70.htm#aramaic"><b>70</b></a></span>And some of the chiefs of the fathers gave to the work of the temple. The elders among the priests gave to the treasury a thousand drams of gold, fifty bowls, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-71.htm#aramaic"><b>71</b></a></span>And some of the chiefs of the fathers gave to the treasury for the work twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-72.htm#aramaic"><b>72</b></a></span>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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/7-73.htm#aramaic"><b>73</b></a></span>So the priests and the Levites and the porters and the attendants and some of the people and the Nethanites and all Israel returned to their own cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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