## My God put into my heart ##

Though God did not really put a thought into Nehemiah's physical heart, he caused Nehemiah to have this idea. AT: "My God made me think of an idea" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

## to enroll them ##

"to list, register, and organize them"

## book of the genealogy ##

an official book of parents and births that was part of Hebrew culture

## and found the following written in it ##

This can be expressed as a new sentence. "The items that follow are what I found and selected from those records."