Nehemiah 7:68

68 Their horses were 736, their mules 245, ^[a]

Nehemiah 7:68 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 7:68

(See Gill on Nehemiah 7:6).

Nehemiah 7:68 In-Context

66 The whole assembly together was 42,360,

67 besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female.

68 Their horses were 736, their mules 245,

69 their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720.

70 Now some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests’ garments and 500 minas of silver.

Footnotes

• [a] 7:68 Compare Ezra 2:66 and the margins of some Hebrew manuscripts; Hebrew lacks 'Their horses . . . 245'