Nehemiah 7:71-73
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
71 And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver. 72 And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.
73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns.
Ezra Summons the People to Obey the Law
And when the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their towns.[a]
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- 8–10 As it was only thirteen years since the reform of Ezra, some scholars think that this passage belongs to the book of Ezra.
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