New American Bible, Revised Edition

Nehemiah 7:63-72 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

63. Also, of the priests: descendants of Hobaiah, descendants of Hakkoz, descendants of Barzillai (he had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was named after him).

64. These men searched their family records, but their names could not be found written there; hence they were disqualified from the priesthood,

65. and the governor ordered them not to partake of the most holy foods until there should be a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

66. The entire assembly taken together came to forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

67. not counting their male and female servants, who were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred male and female singers. Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,

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

69. Certain of the heads of ancestral houses contributed to the temple service. The governor put into the treasury one thousand drachmas of gold, fifty basins, thirty vestments for priests, and five hundred minas of silver.

70. Some of the heads of ancestral houses contributed to the treasury for the temple service: twenty thousand drachmas of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.

71. The contributions of the rest of the people amounted to twenty thousand drachmas of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven vestments for priests.

72. The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all Israel took up residence in their cities.