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Ezra 2:54-68 Amplified Bible (AMP)

54. The sons of Neziah [and] of Hatipha.

55. The sons of [King] Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, Sophereth (Hassophereth), Peruda,

56. The sons of Jaalah, Darkon, Giddel,

57. The sons of Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth-hazzebaim, Ami.

58. All the Nethinim [the temple servants] and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392.

59. And these were they who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not show a record of their fathers' houses or prove their descent, whether they were of Israel:

60. The sons of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, 652.

61. And of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, of Hakkoz, and of Barzillai, who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the [noted] Gileadite and had assumed their name. [II Sam. 17:27, 28; 19:31-39.]

62. These sought their names among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.

63. [Zerubbabel] the governor told them they should not eat of the most holy things [the priests' food] until there should be a priest with Urim and Thummim [who by consulting these articles in his breastplate could know God's will in the matter].

64. The whole congregation numbered 42,360,

65. Besides their menservants and maidservants, 7,337; and among them they had 200 men and women singers.

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

67. Their camels were 435; their donkeys, 6,720.

68. Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God to [re]build it on its site.

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