<p class="bodytext">the descendants of Bebai, 628;p>

<p class="bodytext">the descendants of Hashum, 328;p>

<p class="bodytext">the descendants of Bezai, 324;p>

<p class="bodytext">the men of Anathoth, 128;p>

<p class="bodytext">the descendants of Azgad, 2,322;p>

<p class="bodytext">the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;p>

<p class="bodytext">the men of Bethel<n id="1" /> and Ai, 123;p>

and his followers,<n id="1" /> Gabbai and Sallai &#8211; 928 in all.

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

and his colleagues<n id="1" /> who were exceptional men &#8211; 128. The officer over them was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim.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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought to me,<n id="1" /> I took the wine and gave it to the king. Previously<n id="2" /> I had not been depressed<n id="3" /> in the king&#8217;s presence.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">From the day that I was appointed<n id="1" /> governor<n id="2" /> in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes &#8211; twelve years in all &#8211; neither I nor my relatives<n id="3" /> ate the food allotted to the governor.<n id="4" />

and their colleagues<n id="1" /> who were carrying out work for the temple &#8211; 822; and Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malkijah,