Esdra 2:65-70

65 senza contare i loro servi e le loro serve, che ammontavano a settemila trecento trentasette. Avean pure duecento cantori e cantatrici.

66 Aveano settecento trentasei cavalli, duecento quarantacinque muli,

67 quattrocento trentacinque cammelli e seimilasettecento venti asini.

68 Alcuni dei capi famiglia, come furon giunti alla casa dell’Eterno ch’è a Gerusalemme, offriron dei doni volontari per la casa di Dio, per rimetterla in piè sul luogo di prima.

69 Dettero al tesoro dell’opera, secondo i loro mezzi, sessantunmila dariche d’oro, cinquemila mine d’argento e cento vesti sacerdotali.

70 I sacerdoti, i Leviti, la gente del popolo, i cantori, i portinai, i Nethinei, si stabiliron nelle loro città; e tutti gl’Israeliti, nelle città rispettive.

Esdra 2:65-70 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 2

This chapter contains a list of those that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem, of their leaders, their chief men, princes and priests, Ezr 2:1,2 of the people, described by their families, towns, and cities, and number of persons, Ezr 2:3-35, of the priests, Levites, and Nethinims, Ezr 2:36-58, and of those that could not make out their genealogy, people and priests, Ezr 2:59-63, and then the sum total of the whole congregation is given, Ezr 2:64, besides men and maidservants, singing men and women, and cattle of divers sorts, Ezr 2:65-67, and the chapter is closed with an account of the freewill offerings of the principal men towards the building of the temple, and of the settlement of the people in their respective cities, Ezr 2:68-70.