¹ The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones.

² And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry.

³ And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall live? And I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.

⁴ And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live.

⁶ And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow over you, and will cover you with skin: and I will give you spirit and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

⁷ And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together, each one to its joint.

⁸ And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up upon them: and the skin was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit in them.

⁹ And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again.

¹⁰ And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit came into them, and they lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

¹¹ And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel : they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

¹² Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel.

¹³ And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my people:

¹⁴ And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God:

¹⁵ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

¹⁶ And thou son of man, take thee a stick: and write upon it: Of Juda, and of the children of Israel his associates: and take another stick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, and of his associates.

¹⁷ And join them one to the other into one stick, and they shall become one in thy hand.

¹⁸ And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this?

¹⁹ Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that are associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Juda, and will make them one stick: and they shall be one in his hand.

²⁰ And the sticks whereon thou hast written, shall be in thy hand, before their eyes.

²¹ And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from the midst of the nations whither they are gone: and I will gather them on every side, and will bring them to their own land.

²² And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no more be two nations, neither shall they be divided any more into two kingdoms.

²³ Nor shall they be defiled any more with their idols, nor with their abominations, nor with all their iniquities: and I will save them out of all the places in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

²⁴ And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them.

²⁵ And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.

²⁶ And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them : and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.

²⁷ And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

²⁸ And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.

¹ Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

² that I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

³ I said to them, "Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."

⁴ Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.

⁵ My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:

⁶ These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city;

⁷ who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

⁸ The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

⁹ The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

¹⁰ The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.

¹¹ The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen.

¹² The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

¹³ The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.

¹⁴ The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.

¹⁵ The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.

¹⁶ The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.

¹⁷ The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.

¹⁸ The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven.

¹⁹ The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven.

²⁰ The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.

²¹ The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

²² The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight.

²³ The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four.

²⁴ The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve.

²⁵ The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.

²⁶ The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.

²⁷ The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.

²⁸ The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two.

²⁹ The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

³⁰ The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

³¹ The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two.

³² The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.

³³ The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.

³⁴ The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

³⁵ The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.

³⁶ The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

³⁷ The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.

³⁸ The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty.

³⁹ The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.

⁴⁰ The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.

⁴¹ The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

⁴² The children of Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen.

⁴³ The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.

⁴⁴ The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.

⁴⁵ The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.

⁴⁶ The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

⁴⁷ the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

⁴⁸ the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,

⁴⁹ the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

⁵⁰ the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

⁵¹ the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.

⁵² The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,

⁵³ the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

⁵⁴ the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

⁵⁵ the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

⁵⁶ the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

⁵⁷ The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

⁵⁸ the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

⁵⁹ the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Amon.

⁶⁰ All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

⁶¹ These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

⁶² The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.

⁶³ Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

⁶⁴ These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

⁶⁵ The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

⁶⁶ The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

⁶⁷ besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.

⁶⁸ Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

⁶⁹ [their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.

⁷⁰ Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.

⁷¹ Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.

⁷² That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.

⁷³ So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.