Nehemiah 7:71-73

New English Translation

⁷¹ Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas. ⁷² What the rest of the people gave amounted to 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.

⁷³ The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all the rest of Israel lived in their cities.

The People Respond to the Reading of the Law

When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites^[a] were settled in their towns,^[b]