The descendants of fifteen individuals are listed as accompanying Ezra on his journey, for a total of 1,496 men in addition to the fifteen named. Most likely, roughly the same if not more women and children would also have been present on the journey,1 which suggests a total number of around 5,000.2
1 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: