Nehemiah 7:62-72

62 filii Dalaia filii Tobia filii Necoda sescenti quadraginta duo

63 et de sacerdotibus filii Abia filii Accos filii Berzellai qui accepit de filiabus Berzellai Galaditis uxorem et vocatus est nomine eorum

64 hii quaesierunt scripturam suam in censu et non invenerunt et eiecti sunt de sacerdotio

65 dixitque Athersatha eis ut non manducarent de sanctis sanctorum donec staret sacerdos doctus et eruditus

66 omnis multitudo quasi unus quadraginta duo milia sescenti sexaginta

67 absque servis et ancillis eorum qui erant septem milia trecenti triginta et septem et inter eos cantores et cantrices ducentae quadraginta quinque

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69 cameli quadringenti triginta quinque asini sex milia septingenti viginti

70 nonnulli autem de principibus familiarum dederunt in opus Athersatha dedit in thesaurum auri dragmas mille fialas quinquaginta tunicas sacerdotales quingentas triginta

71 et de principibus familiarum dederunt in thesaurum operis auri dragmas viginti milia et argenti minas duo milia ducentas

72 et quod dedit reliquus populus auri dragmas viginti milia et argenti minas duo milia et tunicas sacerdotales sexaginta septem

Nehemiah 7:62-72 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 7

Nehemiah having built the wall, and set up the doors, appointed two persons to take the charge of the city, and set watches for the safety of it, and to take special care about opening and shutting the gates of it, Ne 7:1-3, and concerned he was for the peopling of it, and having found a register of the first comers to it, gives their names, Ne 7:4-69 and some account of the freewill offerings made for the work they came about, Ne 7:70-73.