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70 Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The [a](A)governor gave to the treasury 1,000 gold [b]drachmas, 50 bowls, 530 priests’ tunics. 71 Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver [c]minas. 72 That which the rest of the people gave was 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,000 silver minas and 67 priests’ tunics.

73 So (B)the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel lived in their cities.

(C)Then the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in their cities.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:70 Heb Tirshatha, a Persian title
  2. Nehemiah 7:70 A Greek silver coin, approx. a laborer’s daily wage
  3. Nehemiah 7:71 A mina was approx. 1.25 lb. or 0.6 kg

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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Footnotes

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