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Ezra 8:35 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD. "
Ezra 8:35
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33 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites.
34 Everything was counted and weighed; and all the weight was written at that time.
35 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.
36 They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s local governors and to the governors beyond the River. So they supported the people and God’s house.
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Ezra 8:1
"Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:"
Ezra 8:2
"Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush."
Ezra 8:3
"Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty."
Ezra 8:4
"Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males."
Ezra 8:5
"Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males."
Ezra 8:6
"Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males."
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