The list of Ezra 2:1–70 begins with the people returning to their own town (Ezra 2:1) and it ends with the people settling in their own towns (Ezra 2:70). The key message is that the people of Israel who were sent off into exile have come back to the land that God has given to them.
1 Voici ceux de la province qui revinrent de l'exil, ceux que Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, avait emmenés captifs à Babylone, et qui retournèrent à Jérusalem et en Juda, chacun dans sa ville.