[Instrumental] [Verse] The following who returned from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer were unable to prove that their ancestral houses and their descent were Israelite: descendants of Delaiah, descendants of Tobiah, descendants of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two. [Chorus] The entire assembly taken together came to forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, not counting their male and female servants, who were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred male and female singers. [Instrumental] [Verse] Also, of the priests: descendants of Hobaiah, descendants of Hakkoz, descendants of Barzillai (he had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was named after him). [Chorus] The entire assembly taken together came to forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, not counting their male and female servants, who were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred male and female singers. [Instrumental] [Verse] These men searched their family records, but their names could not be found written there; hence they were disqualified from the priesthood, and the governor ordered them not to partake of the most holy foods until there should be a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim. [Chorus] The entire assembly taken together came to forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, not counting their male and female servants, who were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred male and female singers. [Instrumental] [End]
