These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

The whole assembly numbered 42,360,

Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.

in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.

Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests garments.

According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.

So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.

And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.