RobH_en_tn/neh/07/05.md

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."