Nehemia 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ¹  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ²  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ³ 

Nehemia 9:19

9:19 “Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, ⁴  nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.

Nehemia 13:18

13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors ⁵  acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!”

[7:5]  ¹ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

[7:5]  ² tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

[7:5]  ³ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “did not turn from them by day to guide them in the path.”

[13:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “your fathers.”