Nehemiah 7:4-6

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴ Now the city was wide and large, but the people in it were few, and their houses were not yet built.

⁵ And my God put it into my mind and heart to assemble the nobles, the officers, and the people, that they might be counted by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who came [from Babylon] at the first, and found written in it:

⁶ These are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away; they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his town,