4:13 So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. 1 I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.
The number of Israelite men 2 was as follows:
9:13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
12:1 These are the priests and Levites who returned 3 with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
1 tc The MT preserves the anomalous Kethib form צְחִחִיִּים (tsÿkhikhiyyim); the Qere reads צְחִיחִים (tsÿkhikhim) which is preferred (BDB 850 s.v. צָהִיחַ; HALOT 1018 s.v. *צָהִיחַ).
1 tn Heb “the men of the people of Israel.” Some English versions translate as “the people from Israel” (NCV) or “the Israelite people” (NRSV), but “men” should be retained because the following numbers presumably include only adult males.
1 tn Heb “who went up.”
1 tn Heb “give.”