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70 Some of the heads of the families gave support for the work.
The governor gave to the treasury:
    gold darics: 1,000[a]
    bowls: 50
    garments for the priests: 530.
71 Some of the heads of the families gave this to the treasury for the work:
    gold darics: 20,000
    silver minas: 2,200.[b]
72 What the rest of the people gave was this:
    gold darics: 20,000
    silver minas: 2,000
    and garments for the priests: 67.

73 The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, and the temple servants, that is, all Israel, settled in their cities.

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  1. Nehemiah 7:70 A daric is a unit of weight that appears in post-exilic books. It is a Persian term, equal to the Greek drachma, about a third of an ounce. It is also the name of a Persian gold coin.
  2. Nehemiah 7:71 Estimates of the weight of a mina very widely, from twenty to thirty-five ounces.

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”