holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
007:066 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand
three hundred sixty,
007:067 besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom
there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they
had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.
007:068 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules,
two hundred forty-five;
007:069 [their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys,
six thousand seven hundred twenty.
007:070 Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work.
The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold,
fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.
007:071 Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury
of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand
two hundred minas of silver.
007:072 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand
darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver,
and sixty-seven priests' garments.
007:073 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers,
and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel,
lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come,
the children of Israel were in their cities.
008:001 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into
the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke
to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses,
which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
008:002 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly,
both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding,
on the first day of the seventh month.
008:003 He read therein before the broad place that was before the water
gate from early morning until midday, in the presence
of the men and the women, and of those who could understand;
and the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book
of the law.
008:004 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made
for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema,
and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand;
and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah,
and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam.
008:005 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people;
(for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it,
all the people stood up:
008:006 and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people
answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands:
and they bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their
faces to the ground.
008:007 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai,
Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah,
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