The listing of "the men of Michmas, 122" returns to individual city enumeration after the combined groupings, demonstrating administrative flexibility in organizing the genealogical listing according to practical and demographic realities. The enumeration of Michmas's returning population indicates this city maintained sufficient diaspora representation to warrant individual documentation and retained claims to ancestral property and civic status upon resettlement. The consistent attention to documenting all returning populations, whether as individual cities, combined groupings, or patronymic families, reflects administrative thoroughness and recognition that successful restoration required comprehensive accounting of all community segments. The systematic listing emphasizes that restoration was fundamentally about reconstituting Jewish society in all its complexity, encompassing geographic, genealogical, and administrative dimensions of community identity and organization.

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