Passage

A large city with few people

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

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

Nehemiah 7:4World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

Jerusalem is described as spacious and large, with few people and houses not yet built.

To understand

The narrator says God put it in his heart to gather nobles, rulers and people to register them by genealogy. He finds a genealogical book of the earlier arrivals after giving orders about the city’s gates and guards.

A question

What does the narrator find for registering the people?