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Nehemiah 7:65-71 Amplified Bible (AMP)

65. The governor told them that they should refrain from eating any of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise [to determine the will of God in the matter].

66. The congregation all together was 42,360,

67. Besides their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were 7,337; and they had 245 singers, men and women.

68. Their horses were 736; their mules, 245;

69. Their camels, 435; their donkeys, 6,720.

70. And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The Tirshatha or governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 530 priests' garments.

71. Some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the treasury for the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.