If you don't like reading a whole lot of numbers, you can skip reading Nehemiah 7.

The beginning of the chapter it says that the Lord laid it upon Nehemiah's heart to take a census and he obeyed.  Nehemiah found the book of genealogies and found the list of returned Jews that had been exiled under Nebuchadnezzar...

(This is a short post - let's just say that there were a lot of Jews.  And servants and horses and singers and...)

Chapter 8 deserves an entire post by itself  😉