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descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two;
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descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two;
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descendants of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five;
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descendants of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty;
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people of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three;
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descendants of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five;
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The priests: descendants of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three;
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descendants of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven;
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descendants of Harim, one thousand and seventeen.
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The Levites: descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the descendants of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
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not counting their male and female servants, who numbered seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred male and female singers.
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Their horses numbered seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,
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their camels four hundred and thirty-five, their donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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Chapter 3
Restoration of Worship. Now when the seventh month came, after the Israelites had settled in their cities, the people gathered as one in Jerusalem.
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Laying the Foundations of the Temple. From the first day of the seventh month they reinstituted the burnt offering to the Lord, though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.
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They joyfully kept the feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days, for the Lord had filled them with joy by making the king of Assyria favorable to them, so that he gave them help in their work on the house of God, the God of Israel.
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Some of the Israelites and some priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.
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Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month of that seventh year of the king.
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for you are the one sent by the king and his seven counselors to supervise Judah and Jerusalem with regard to the law of your God which is in your possession,
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of the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah, son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males;
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of the descendants of Bigvai, Uthai, son of Zakkur, and with him seventy males.
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those who had returned from the captivity, the exiles, offered as burnt offerings to the God of Israel twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve goats as sin offerings: all these as a burnt offering to the Lord.