Psalms 87:6

Jehovah shall reckon, when he registers the peoples,

-This one was born there."

Jehovah holds His census of the nations, and writes their names down in His book. One after another of them He registers as -born in Zion." It is the official confirmation of their rights of citizenship. Allusions to the registers of citizens are found in Psalms 69:28; Isaiah 4:3; Ezekiel 13:9; and the importance attached to genealogical registers appears in Ezra 2:62.