Bible & Koran

4 Here is a list, arranged by families, clans, and tribes, of those who went to Jerusalem. 5 First, there was Joshua, the descendant of Jozadak and Seraiah. He was one of the priests, the descendants of Aaron and his son Phinehas. Joakim the son of Zerubbabel and grandson of Shealtiel also went. He was from the family of King David, and so he was a descendant of Judah and his son Perez.

6 Zerubbabel was the one who had showed such great wisdom to King Darius of Persia, in the month of Nisan of second year of his rule.

7 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had captured many of the people of Judah and had taken them as prisoners to Babylonia. 8 Now they were on their way back to Jerusalem and to their own towns everywhere in Judah. Their leaders were Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Resaiah, Eneneus, Mordecai, Beelsarus, Aspharasus, Reeliah, Rehum, and Baanah. 9-17 And here is a list of how many returned from each family group: Here is how many returned, whose ancestors had come from the following towns:

18-23 There were 123 from Bethlehem; 55 from Netophah; 158 from Anathoth; 42 from Beth Azmaveth; 25 from Kiriatharim; 743 from Chephirah and Beeroth; 422 from the villages of the Chadiasans and Ammidians; 621 from Ramah and Geba; 122 from Michmash; 52 from Bethel; 156 from Magbish; 725 from the towns of Elam and Ono; 345 from Jericho; and 3,330 from Senaah.

24-25 Here is a list of how many returned from each family of priests:

26-28 Here is a list of how many returned from the families of Levites:

29-32 Here is a list of the families of temple workers whose descendants returned:

33-34 Here is a list of Solomon's servants whose descendants returned:

35 A total of 372 descendants of temple workers and Solomon's servants returned.

36-37 There were 652 who returned from the families of Nekoda and of Delaiah son of Tobiah, though they could not prove they were Israelites. They had lived in the Babylonian towns of Tel-Melah and Tel-Harsha, and their leaders were Cherub, Addan, and Immer.

38-39 The families of Habaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai could not prove that they were priests. Jaddus was the ancestor of the Barzillai family. He had married Agia, one of the daughters of Barzillai from Gilead, and he had taken his wife's family name. But the records of these three families could not be found, and none of them were allowed to serve as priests. 40 In fact, Nehemiah and the governor told them, “You cannot eat the food offered to God, until God tells a high priest that you can.”

41-42 There were 42,360 that returned who were age twelve and older, in addition to 7,337 servants and 245 musicians and singers. 43 They brought with them 435 camels; 7,036 horses; 245 mules; and 5,525 donkeys.

44 When the people came to the place in Jerusalem where God's temple had been located, some of the family leaders made a sacred promise to rebuild the temple in the very same place 45 and to give the money to pay for it. They promised to give 571 kilograms of gold, and 2.85 tons of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.

46 The priests and Levites and some of the other people settled in Jerusalem and the surrounding villages. The rest of the people, including the temple singers and guards, settled in the towns from which their families had come.