But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

the sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five;

the sons of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight;

the men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two;

the men of Kirjath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three;

the sons of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five;

the sons of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven;

The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight.

the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two;

Altogether the whole assembly was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

besides their male and female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women singers.

Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,

Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; They lacked nothing; Their clothes did not wear out And their feet did not swell.

and his brethren, heads of the fathers’ houses, were two hundred and forty-two; and Amashai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,