Catholic Public Domain Version
"Now the city was great and very wide, and the people in its midst were few, and the houses were not yet built. "
— Nehemiah 7:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.”
“Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded. ”
“Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.”
“Now the city was spread out and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. At that time houses had not been rebuilt.”
“And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built.”
“Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.”
“Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.”
Then, after the wall was built, and I set up the double doors, and I enrolled the gatekeepers, and the singing men, and the Levites,
I instructed Hanani, my brother, and Hananiah, the leader of the house of Jerusalem, (for he seemed to be a truthful man, fearing God more than the others,)
and I said to them: “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot.” And while they were standing there, the gates were closed and barred. And I stationed guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each one in his turn, and each one opposite his own house.
Now the city was great and very wide, and the people in its midst were few, and the houses were not yet built.
But God had given to my heart, and I gathered the nobles, and the magistrates, and the common people, so that I might enroll them. And I found a book of the census of those who first went up, and in it there was found written:
These are the sons of the province, who ascended from the captivity of the transmigration, those whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had taken away, and who returned into Jerusalem and Judea, each one to his own city.
They arrived with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: