1   These forsothe ben the men, sonus of the prouynce, that ste&yogh;eden vp fro the caitifte, that Nabugodonosor, king of Babiloyne, hadde taken ouer in to Babiloine; and thei ben turned a&yogh;een in to Jerusalem and Jude, 2   eche in to his cite, the whiche camen with Zorobabel; Jesua, Neemya, Saraia, Rahelaia, Mordochaa, Belsan, Mesfar, Begnai, Reum, Baana. The noumbre of the men of the puple of Irael; 3   sones of Fares, two thousend an hundrid and two and seuenti; the sonus of Arethi, seuene hundrid fiue and seuenti; the sonus of Sefesia, 4   thre hundrid and two and seuenti; 5   the sonus of Aria, seuene hundrid and fiue and seuenti; 6   the sonus of Fee and of Moab, sones of Josue and of Joab, two thousend nyne hundrid and twelue; 7   the sones of Elam, a thousend two hundrid and foure and fifti; the sonus of Sechua, 8   nyne hundrid and fiue and fourty; 9   the sonis of Zaahai,

seuene hundrid and sixti; 10   the sonus of Baany, sixe hundrid and two and fourti; sonus of Bebai, 11   sixe hundrid and thre and twenti; 12   sonus of Asgad, a thousend two hundrid and two and twenti; 13   sonus of Adonycam, sixe hundrid and sixe and sixti; 14   sonus of Beguai, two thousend and sixe and fifti; 15   sonus of Adin, foure hundrid and foure and fifti; 16   sonys of Aser, that weren of Ezechie, nynti and ei&yogh;te; sonus of Besai, 17   thre hundrid and thre and twenti; 18   sonus of Jora, an hundrid and twelue; 19   sonus of Ason, two hundrid and thre and twenti; 20   sonus of Jebar, nynti and fiue; 21   sonus of Bethlem, an hundrid and thre and twenti; 22   the men of Necofa, sixe and fifti; 23   the men of Anatot, an hundrid and ei&yogh;te and twenti; 24   sonus of Asmoneth, two and fourti; 25   sonus of Cariathiarym, Cefiara, and Berhoc, seuene hundrid and thre and fourti; 26   sonus of Arama and of Gaba, sixe hundrid and oon and twenti; 27   men of Machinas, an hundrid and two and twenti; 28   men of Bethel and of Gai, two hundrid and thre and twenti; 29   sonus of Nebo, two and fifti; sonys of Megbis, 30   an hundrid and sixe and fifti; 31   the sonus of the tother Elam, a thousend two hundrid and foure and fifti; 32   the sonus of Arym, thre hundrid and twenti; 33   the sonus of Ladadin and of Ono, seuen hundrid and fiue and twenti; sonus of Jericho, 34   thre hundrid and fiue and fourti; 35   sonus of Sanaa, thre thousend sixe hundrid and thretti; 36   prestus, sonus of Idaia, in the hous of Jesue, nyne hundrid seuenti and thre; 37   sonus of Emmeor, a thousend and two and fifti; 38   sonus of Fesur, a thousend two hundrid and seuene and fourti; 39   sonus of Arym, a thousend and seuentene; 40   Leuitus, the sonus of Jesue and of Cedinyel, sonus of Odonia,

seuenti and foure; 41   chauntoures, sonus of Asaf, an hundrid and ei&yogh;te and twenti; the sonus of the porteris, 42   sones of Sellum, the sonus of Ather, sonus of Thelmon, the sonus of Accub, `the sonus of Aritha, the sonus of Sobar, the sonus of Sobai, alle, an hundrid and ei&yogh;te and thretti; 43   sodeknys, sonus of Ozai, the sonus of Azufa, the sonus of Thebaoth, the sonus of Ceros, 44   the sonus of Cisaa, the sonus of Fadon, 45   the sonus of Jebona, the sonus of Agoba, 46   the sonus of Accub, the sonus of Accab, the sonus of Selmai, the sonus of Annan, 47   the sonus of Gaddei, the sonus of Gaer, 48   the sonus of Rahaia, the sonus of Jasin, the sonus of Nethoda, the sonus of Gasem, 49   the sonus of Asa, the sonus of Fasea, 50   the sonus of Besee, the sonus of Asennaa, the sonus of Numyn, the sonus of Nechusym, 51   the sonus of Bechue, the sonus of Accufa, the sonus of Assur, 52   the sonus of Besuth, the sonus of Maida, 53   the sonus of Arsa, the sonus of Berchos, the sonus of Cizara, the sonus of Thema, 54   the sonus of Nazia, the sonus of Acufa, 55   the sonus of the seruauns of Salamon, the sonus of Sothelthei, the sonus of Sofereth, the sonus of Feruda, the sonus of Jala, 56   the sonus of Derchon, the sonus of Jedel, 57   the sonus of Safatha, the sonus of Athil, the sonus of Fesorethei, that weren of Azebam, the sonus of Ammy; 58   alle the sodeknys, and the sonus of the seruauns of Salamon, thre hundrid and nynti and two. 59   And these that ste&yogh;eden vp fro Thelmela, and Thelersa, Cherub, and Don, and Mer, and thei my&yogh;ten not shewe the hous of ther faders and ther sed, whether of Irael thei weren; 60   the sonus of Delaia, the sonus of Tobia, the sonus of Nechoda, sixe hundrid and two and fifti; 61   and of the sonus of prestus, the sonus of Obia, the sonus of

Accos, the sonus of Bersellai, that toc a wif of the do&yogh;tris of Bersellai Galaditis, and he is clepid bi the name of hem; these so&yogh;ten the scripture of ther genelogie, 62    and founden not, and thei ben cast awei fro presthod. 63   And Athersatha seide to them, that thei shulde not eten of the holi of halewis, to the time that ther shulde risen a ta&yogh;t prest and perfit. 64   Al the multitude as o man, two and fourti thousend thre hundrid and sixti, 65   out take the seruauntis of hem and hand maidenes, that weren seuen thousend thre hundrid seuene and thretti; and in hem singeres and singeressis, two hundrid. 66   The hors of hem, sixe hundrid and sixe and thretti; the mulis of hem, foure hundrid and fiue and fourti; 67   the camailis of hem, foure hundrid and fiue and thretti; the assis of hem, sixe thousend seuene hundrid and twenti. 68   And of the princis of the fadris, whan thei shulden gon in to the temple of the Lord, that is in Jerusalem, wilfulli thei offriden in to the hous of God, to it to be maad out in his place; 69   after ther strengthis thei &yogh;euen the costis of the werk, of gold, shillingis fourti thousend and a thousend; of siluer, besauntus fiue thousent; and prestus clothis an hundrid. 70   Thanne dwelten the prestus and the Leuitus of the puple, and the singeres, and porteris, and sodeknys in ther cites, and al Israel in their cytees.

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