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Ezra 2:65 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women. "
Ezra 2:65
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63 The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.
64 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
65 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
67 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
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Ezra 2:1
"Now these are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;"
Ezra 2:2
"who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:"
Ezra 2:3
"The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two."
Ezra 2:4
"The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two."
Ezra 2:5
"The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five."
Ezra 2:6
"The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve."
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