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Nehemiah - ch 7 v 61 - 73
- All these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but because they had no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain if they were Israelites:
- The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.
- And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.
- They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
- And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.
- The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty;
- As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.
- They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts;
- Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.
- And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes.
- And some of the heads of families gave into the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
- And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' robes.
- So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.
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