<p class="bodytext">On the sealed documents were the following names:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, along with Zedekiah,p>

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.p> <p class="bodytext">The number of Israelites<n id="1" /> was as follows:<n id="2" />p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">These are the words of Nehemiah<n id="2" /> son of Hacaliah:p> <p class="bodytext">It so happened that in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year,<n id="3" /> I was in Susa<n id="4" /> the citadel.

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.p> <p class="bodytext">The number of Israelite men<n id="1" /> was as follows:p>

These all served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priestly scribe.<n id="1" />p>

Nehemiah son of Azbuk, head of a half-district of Beth Zur, worked after him as far as the tombs of David and the artificial pool and the House of the Warriors.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Nehemiah the governor,<n id="1" /> Ezra the priestly scribe,<n id="2" /> and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them,<n id="3" /> &#8220;This day is holy to the <sc>LORDsc> your God. Do not mourn or weep.&#8221; For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.

So in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, all Israel was contributing the portions for the singers and gatekeepers, according to the daily need.<n id="1" /> They also set aside<n id="2" /> the portion for the Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.p>