Reckoned by genealogy] It was proposed to take a census of all the persons of Jewish descent, with a view to transferring part of the country population to the capital. Particulars derived from such a census appear in Nehemiah 11:4. Here, however, the subject is for a time dropped, and the register that follows relates to the period of Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 7:7).

7-73. The names here enumerated are repeated, with certain small differences, from the list contained in Ezra 2.

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