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And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Moeth the son of Binnui, Levites: all was delivered to them by number and weight.
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And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.
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Moreover those who had come out of the captivity offered sacrifice unto the Lord God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,
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threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
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And they delivered the king's commandments unto the king's stewards and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of God.
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Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me and said,
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"The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites have not put away from them the strange people of the land nor the pollutions of the Gentiles, to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.
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For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity."
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And as soon as I had heard these things, I rent my clothes and the holy garment, and pulled out the hair from my head and beard, and sat down sad and very heavy.
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So all those who were then moved at the word of the Lord God of Israel assembled unto me, while I mourned for the iniquity; but I sat still, full of heaviness, until the evening sacrifice.
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Then, rising up from the fast with my clothes and the holy garment rent, and bowing my knees and stretching forth my hands unto the Lord,