Nehemiah 7:39-73


39 The priests:
the sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, 973;

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the sons of Immer, 1,052;

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the sons of Pashhur, 1,247;

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the sons of Harim, 1,017.

43 The Levites:
the sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the sons of 1Hodevah, 74.
44 The singers:
the sons of Asaph, 148.
45 The gatekeepers:
the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.

46 The temple servants:
the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,

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the sons of Keros, the sons of 1Sia, the sons of Padon,

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the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,

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the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,

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the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,

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the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,

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the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of 1Nephushesim,

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the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,

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the sons of 1Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,

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the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,

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the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.

57 The sons of Solomon’s servants:
the sons of Sotai, the sons of 1Sophereth, the sons of 2Perida,

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the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,

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the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of 1Amon.

60 All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.

61 Now these were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, 1Addon, and Immer; but they were not able to declare their fathers’ houses or their fathers’ seed, whether they were of Israel:

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the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642.
63 Of the priests:
the sons of 1Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai, the Gileadite, and he was called by their name.
64 These searched in their genealogical records, but it could not be found; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood. 65 aAnd the 1governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood with 2bUrim and Thummim.

The Assembly and Their Gifts

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The whole assembly together was 42,360,

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besides their male and their female slaves, 1of whom there were 7,337;
and they had 245 male and female singers.

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1aTheir horses were 736; their mules, 245;

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their camels, 435; their donkeys, 6,720.

70 Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The 1agovernor gave to the treasury 1,000 gold 2drachmas, 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 1minas. 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 athe priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel lived in their cities.
bThen the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in their cities.
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