The List of Returning Exiles
(Nehemiah 7:4–69)

1These are the childre of the londe that wente vp out of the captiuyte (who Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon had caried awaye vnto Babilon) and came agayne to Ierusalem and in to Iuda, euery one vnto his cite, 2and came with Zorobabel, Iesua, Nehemias, Seraia, Reeleia, Mardachai, Bilsan, Mispar, Begeuai, Rehum and Baena. This is now the nombre of the men of the people of Israel: 3The children of Phares, two thousande, an hudreth, and two and seuentye: 4the children of Sephatia, thre hundreth and two and seuentye: 5the children of Arath, seuen hundreth and fyue and seuentye: 6the children of Pahath Moab amonge the children of Iesua Ioab, two thousande, eight hundreth and twolue: 7the children of Elam, a thousande, two hundreth and foure and fiftye: 8the children of Sathu, nyne hundreth, and fyue and fortye: 9the children of Sacai, seue hundreth and thre score: 10the children of Bani, sixe hundreth and two and fortye: 11the children of Bebai, sixe hundreth and thre and twentye: 12the children of Asgad, a thousande two hundreth and two and twentye: 13the children of Adonicam, sixe hudreth and sixe and sixtye: 14the children of Bigeuai, two thousande and sixe and fiftye: 15the children of Adin, foure hundreth and foure and fiftye: 16the children of Ater of Ezechias, eight and nynetye: 17the children of Bezai, thre hundreth and thre and twentye: 18the children of Iorath, an hundreth and twolue: 19the children of Hasum, two hundreth and thre and twentye: 20the children of Gibbar, fyue and nynetye: 21the children off Bethleem, an hundreth and thre and twentye: 22the men off Netopha sixe and fiftye: 23the men off Anathot, an hundreth and eight and twentye: 24the children off Asmaueth, two and fortye: 25the children off Kiriath Arim, Caphira and Beeroth, seuen hundreth and thre and fortye: 26the children off Rama and Gaba, sixe hundreth and one and twetye: 27the men off Michmas, an hundreth and two and twentye: 28the men of Bethel and Ai, two hundreth and thre and twentye: 29the childre of Nebo, two and fyftye: 30the children of Magbis, an hudreth and sixe and fiftye: 31the childre of the other Elam a thousande, two hundreth and foure and fiftye: 32the children of Harim, thre hundreth and twentye: 33the childre of Lodhadid and Ono, seue hudreth and fyue and twetye: 34the childre of Iericho, thre hundreth and fyue and fortye: 35the children of Senaa, thre thousande, sixe, hundreth and thirtye.

36The prestes. The children of Iedaia of the house of Iesua, nyne hundreth and thre and seuentye: 37the childre of Iemmer, a thousande and two and fiftye: 38the children of Pashur, a thousande and two hudreth, and seuen and fortye: 39the childre of Harim, a thousande and seuentene.

40The Leuites. The children of Iesua and Cadmiel of the children of Hodauia, foure and seuentye. 41The syngers, the children of Asaph, an hundreth and eight and twentye. 42The children of the dorekepers. The children of Sallum, the children of Ater, the childre off Talmon, the children off Acub, the children off Hatita, and the children off Sobai: alltogether an hundreth and nyne and thirtye.

43The Nethinims. the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabaoth, 44the children of Ceros, the children of Sieha, the children of Padon, 45the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Acub, 46the childre of Hagab, the children of Samlai, the children of Hanan, 47the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the childre of Reaia, 48the children of Rezin, the children of Necuba, the children of Gasan, 49the children of Vsa, the children of Passeah, the children of Bessai, 50the children of Asna, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephussim, 51the children of Bacbuc, the childre of Hacupha, the children of Harhur, 52ye childre of Hazeluth, ye childre of Mehira, the children of Harsa, 53the children of Barcom, the children of Sissera, the children of Thamah, 54the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

55The children of Salomons seruauntes. The children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Pruda, 56the children of Iaela, the childre of Darcon, the childre of Giddell, 57the childre of Sephatia, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.

58All the Nethinims and the children off Salomons seruauntes were alltogether, thre hundreth and two and nyentye.

59And these wete vp also, Mithel, Melath, Thel, Harso, Cherub, Addon and Immer. But they coulde not shewe their fathers house ner their sede, whether they were of Israel. 60The children of Delaia, the children of Tobias, the children of Necoda, sixe hundreih and two and fiftye.

61And of the children of the prestes. The children of Habaia, the children of Hacom, the children of Barsillai, which toke one of the daughters of Barsillai the Gileadite to wife, and was counted amonge the same names: 62these soughte the register of their byrth, and founde none, therfore were they put from the presthode. 63And Hathirsatha sayde vnto them, that they shulde not eate of the most holy, tyll there rose vp a prest with the lighte and perfectnesse.

64The whole congregacion as one man, was two and fortye thousande, thre hundreth and thre score: 65besyde their seruauntes and maydes, of whom there were seue thousande, thre hundreth and seuen and thirtye. And they had two hundreth singinge men and wemen, 66seue hundreth and sixe and thirtye horses, two hundreth and fyue and fortye Mules, 67foure hudreth and fyue and thirtye Camels, and sixe thousande, seuen hundreth and twentye Asses.

Offerings by the Exiles
(Exodus 38:21–31; Nehemiah 7:70–73)

68And certayne of the chefe fathers, whan they came to the house of the LORDE at Ierusalem, they were well mynded vnto the house of God, that it shulde be set in his place, 69and gaue after their abilyte vnto the treasure of the worke, one and threscore thousande guldens, and fyue thousande pounde of syluer, and an hundreth prestes garmentes.

70So the prestes and the Leuites, and certayne of ye people, and the syngers, and the porters, and ye Nethinims dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.