70 Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The [a](A)governor gave to the treasury a thousand gold drachmas, fifty basins, and 530 priests’ garments. 71 And some of the heads of fathers’ households gave to the treasury for the work twenty thousand gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas. 72 What the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:70 Heb Tirshatha, a Persian title

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