Ozzuu Bible
en_wbms - Neh 7Config
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And after that the wall of Jeru-salem was builded, and I had set up the gates thereof , and had numbered the porters, and singers, and deacons [or Levites],
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I commanded to Hanani, my brother, and to Hananiah, the prince of the house of Jerusalem; for he seemed a soothfast man, and dreading God more than other men did ;
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and I said to them, The gates of Jerusalem be not opened till to the heat of the sun; and, when I was yet present, the gates were closed, and locked. And I set keepers thereof of the dwellers of Jerusalem, all men by their whiles, or times , and each man over against his own house.
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And the city was full broad and great, and little people in the midst thereof, and the houses were not yet builded.
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And God gave in mine heart, and I gathered together the principal men, and magistrates, and the common people, for to number them; and I found a book of the number[ing] of them, that had gone up first from the captivity . And it was found written therein,
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These be the sons of the province, which went up from the captivity of men passing over from Babylon to Jerusalem , which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had led over into Babylon ; and they that were come with Zerubbabel turned again into Jerusalem and into Judah, each man to his city;
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Joshua, that is to say, Jeshua , Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Naham-ani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Big-vai, Nehum, Baanah. And the number of the men of the people of Israel is this ;
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the sons of Pahathmoab, of the sons of Jeshua and of Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen;
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deacons [or Levites]; the sons of Joshua, and of Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodevah, four and seventy;
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porters; the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, an hundred and eight and thirty;
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sons of Shephatiah, sons of Hattil, sons of Pochereth, which were born of Zebaim, and the sons of Amon;
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all Nethinims, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hun-dred and two and twenty or seventy.
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And these that follow be they that went up of the country of Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; which might not show the house of their fathers, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel;
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and of the priests; the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, that took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai of Gilead, and was called by the name of them;
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these sought the scripture of their genealogy, and they found it not, and they were therefore cast out of priest-hood.
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And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy things of holy men, till that a wise priest rose up among the people .
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besides the servants and handmaids of them, which were seven thousand three hundred and seven and thirty; and among [them] the singers and sing-eresses, six hundred and five and forty.
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The horses of them, six hundred and six and thirty; the mules of them, two hundred and five and forty;
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the camels of them, four hundred and five and thirty; the asses of them, six thousand eight hundred and thirty.
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Soothly some of the princes of the meines gave costs into the work of God; the Tirshatha gave into the treasure [or treasury], a thousand drachmas/drams of gold, fifty vials, or basins , five hundred and thirty coats of priests.
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And of the princes of [the] meines, they gave into the treasure [or treasury] of the work, twenty thousand drachmas/ drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred bezants of silver.
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And that that the residue people gave, twenty thousand drachmas/drams of gold, and two thousand bezants of silver, and seven and sixty coats of priests.
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Soothly [the] priests, and deacons [or Levites], and porters, and singers, and the residue people, and Nethinims, and all Israel dwelled in their cities. And when the seventh month was come under Ezra and Nehemiah, soothly the sons of Israel were in their cities.