70 Some of the family heads contributed to the project. The governor gave 1,000 gold coins,[a] 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments to the treasury. 71 Some of the family heads gave 20,000 gold coins and 2,200 silver minas to the treasury for the project. 72 The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold coins, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments. 73 The priests, Levites, gatekeepers, temple singers, some of the people, temple servants, and all Israel settled in their towns.(A)

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When the seventh month(B) came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,

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  1. 7:70 Or drachmas, or darics; also in vv. 71,72

70 Now some from the heads of the families[a] gave to the work. The governor gave to the storehouse one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly tunics. 71 Now some of the heads of the families[b] gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas. 72 And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics.

73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month came, the Israelites[c] were in their cities.

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  1. Nehemiah 7:70 Literally “fathers”
  2. Nehemiah 7:71 Literally “fathers”
  3. Nehemiah 7:73 Literally “sons/children of Israel”