Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ¹  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ²  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ³ 

Nehemiah 7:1

7:1 When the wall had been rebuilt and I had positioned the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

Nehemiah 9:1

The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God

9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

¹ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

² tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

³ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.