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T4T EZRA Chapter 2

EZRA 2 ©

The list of groups that returned to Judah

2King Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers had captured many Israeli people and taken them to Babylonia. Many years later, some Israeli people returned to Judah. Some returned to Jerusalem, and some returned to other places in Judah. They went to the towns where their ancestors had lived. This is a list of the groups who returned. 2The leaders of those groups were Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.

There were:

32,172 4372 5775 62,812 71,254 8945 9760 10642 11623 121,222 13666 142,056 15454 1698 17323 18112 19223 2095

People whose ancestors had lived in these towns in Judah:

21123 2256 23128 2442 25743 26621 27122 28223 2952 30156 311,254 32320 33725 34345 353,630


36Priests who returned:

371,052 381,247 391,017

The ones from the rest of the tribe of Levi who returned were:

4074 41128 42139


43The temple workers/men who would work in the temple► who were descendants of these men:

55These descendants of King Solomon’s servants returned:

58Altogether, there were 392 temple workers and descendants of Solomon’s servants who returned.


59There was another group who returned to Judah from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer towns in Babylonia. But they could not prove that they were descendants of people who previously lived in Israel.


60This group included 652 people who were descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda.

61Hobaiah’s clan, Hakkoz’s clan, and Barzillai’s clan also returned. Barzillai had married a woman who was a descendant of Barzillai from the Gilead region, and he had taken for himself the name of his father-in-law’s clan.

62The people in that group searched in the documents that had the names of the ancestors of all the clans, but these men’s names were not found. So they were not permitted do the work that priests did. 63The governor told them that they would need to ask a priest to consult Yahweh by casting/throwing the sacred lots/stones that had been marked►, to determine if those men were truly Israelis. When the priests did that, if the stones showed that those men were Israelis, they would be permitted to eat the shares of the sacrifices that were given to the priests.


64Altogether 42,360 Israeli people who returned to Judah. 65There were also 7,337 servants and 200 musicians, both men and women, who returned. 66The Israelis brought with them from Babylonia 736 horses, 245 mules, 67435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

68When they arrived at the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem, some of the clan leaders gave money for the supplies needed to rebuild the temple at the place where the temple had been previously. 69They all gave as much money as they were able to give. Altogether they gave 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds/3,000 kg.► of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.

70Then the priests, the other descendants of Levi, the musicians, the temple guards, and some of the other people started to live in the towns and villages near Jerusalem. The rest of the people went to the other places in Israel where their ancestors had lived.

EZRA 2 ©

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