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The List of Those Who Returned

Now these are the people[a] of the province who went up from the captivity of the exiles whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had exiled to Babylon. The people who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua,[b] Nehemiah, Seraiah, Re’elaiah,[c] Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Ba’anah returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each man to his own city.

This is the tally of the men from the people of Israel:[d]

the male descendants[e] of Parosh:2,172
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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 2:1 Literally sons. This term sons may include male descendants of multiple generations.
  2. Ezra 2:2 Also known as Joshua
  3. Ezra 2:2 The stop mark ′ indicates that the double vowel should be pronounced as two syllables, re-el, not as one syllable, reel.
  4. Ezra 2:2 In this list and the similar list in Nehemiah, there are many variants of names and numbers. The translation provides footnotes only for some of the more important variants.
  5. Ezra 2:3 Literally sons