Lexham English Bible

Ezra 2:61-68 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

61. And from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Habaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).

62. These sought their record in the genealogy records, but they were not found, and were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

63. The governor said to them that they could not eat from the holy food of the sanctuary until there was present a priest for the Urim and Thummim.

64. The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

65. apart from their male and female servants, of whom were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers.

66. Their horses numbered seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules numbered two hundred and forty-five,

67. their camels numbered four hundred and thirty-five, their donkeys numbered six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

68. When some of the heads of families came to the house of Yahweh that is in Jerusalem, they gave freewill offerings for the house of God to erect it on its place.