And they assembled all the congregation together on the first [day] of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Ver. 18. And they declared their pedigrees.] Which those that could not do, Ezr 2:62 were cut out of the roll, capite diminuti, cashiered.