NEḤEMYAH 11

1 Now the rulers of the people dwelt at Yerushalayim, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to dwell in Yerushalayim, the qodesh city, and nine-tenths were to dwell in other cities.

2 And the people baraḵ all the men who volunteered to dwell at Yerushalayim.

3 And these are the heads of the province who dwelt in Yerushalayim, but in the cities of Yahuḏah everyone dwelt in his own possession in their cities – Yisra’ĕl, the kohenim, and the Lĕwites, and the Nethinim, and the sons of Shelomoh’s servants.

4 And in Yerushalayim dwelt certain of the children of Yahuḏah and of the children of Binyamin. Of the children of Yahuḏah: Athayah son of Uzziyah, son of Zeḵaryah, son of Amaryah, son of Shephatyah, son of Mahalal’ĕl, of the children of Perets;

5 and Ma’asĕyah son of Baruḵ, son of Kol-Ḥozeh, son of Ḥazayah, son of Aḏayah, son of Yoyariḇ, son of Zeḵaryah, son of Shiloni.

6 All the sons of Perets who dwelt at Yerushalayim were four hundred and sixty-eight brave men.

7 And these are the sons of Binyamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Yow’ĕḏ, son of Peḏayah, son of Qolayah, son of Ma’asĕyah, son of Ithi’ĕl, son of Yeshayah;

8 and after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.

9 And Yo’ĕl son of Ziḵri was their overseer, and Yahuḏah son of Senuah was second over the city.

10 Of the kohenim: Yeḏayah son of Yoyariḇ, Yaḵin,

11 Serayah son of Ḥilqiyah, son of Meshullam, son of Tsaḏoq, son of Merayoth, son of Aḥituḇ, was the leader of the House of Elohim.

12 And their brothers who did the work of the House were eight hundred and twenty-two; and Aḏayah son of Yeroḥam, son of Pelalyah, son of Amtsi, son of Zeḵaryah, son of Pashḥur, son of Malkiyah,

13 and his brothers, heads of the fathers, were two hundred and forty-two; and Amashesai son of Azar’ĕl, son of Aḥzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immĕr,

14 and their brothers, mighty brave ones, were one hundred and twenty-eight. And their overseer was Zaḇdi’ĕl, son of the great ones.

15 Also of the Lĕwites: Shemayah son of Ḥashshuḇ, son of Azriqam, son of Ḥashaḇyah, son of Bunni;

16 and Shabbethai and Yozaḇaḏ, of the heads of the Lĕwites, over the outside work of the House of Elohim;

17 and Mattanyah son of Miḵa, son of Zaḇdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader who began the thanksgiving with prayer, and Baqbuqyah the second among his brothers, and Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Yeḏuthun.

18 All the Lĕwites in the qodesh city were two hundred and eighty-four.

19 And the gatekeepers, Aqquḇ, Talmon, and their brothers keeping guard at the gates, were one hundred and seventy-two.

20 And the rest of Yisra’ĕl, of the kohenim, Lĕwites, were in all the cities of Yahuḏah, each one in his inheritance.

21 But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel. And Tsiḥa and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

22 And the overseer of the Lĕwites at Yerushalayim was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Ḥashaḇyah, son of Mattanyah, son of Miḵa. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the work of the House of Elohim,

23 for the sovereign’s command was upon them – and support for the singers, a matter day by day.

24 And Pethaḥyah son of Meshĕyzaḇ’ĕl, of the children of Zeraḥ son of Yahuḏah, was the sovereign’s deputy in all matters concerning the people.

25 And at the villages with their fields, some of the children of Yahuḏah dwelt in Qiryath ha’Arba and its villages, and in Diḇon and its villages, and in Yeqaḇtse’ĕl and its villages,

26 and in Yĕshua, and in Molaḏah, and in Bĕyth Pelet,

27 and in Ḥatsar Shu’al, and in Be’ĕrsheḇa and its villages,

28 and in Tsiqlaḡ, and in Meḵonah and its villages,

29 and in Ĕyn Rimmon, and in Tsorah, and in Yarmuth,

30 Zanowaḥ, Aḏullam, and their villages; in Laḵish and its fields; in Azĕqah and its villages. So they dwelt from Be’ĕrsheḇa to the Valley of Hinnom.

31 And the children of Binyamin: from Geḇa, Miḵmash, and Ayyah, and Bĕyth Ĕl, and their villages;

32 Anathoth, Noḇ, Ananyah;

33 Ḥatsor, Ramah, Gittayim;

34 Ḥaḏiḏ, Tseḇoyim, Neballat;

35 Loḏ, and Ono, Gĕy ha’Ḥarashim.

36 And of the Lĕwites, the divisions of Yahuḏah were for Binyamin.