# Connecting Statement:

Nehemiah is continuing to recount the number of people who returned from exile. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# Jedaiah ... Jeshua

These are names of men. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

# of the house of Jeshua

The word "house" is a metonym for family. Alternate translation: "from the family of Jeshua" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])