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Ezra 8:34 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time. "
Ezra 8:34
Verse in Context
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And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
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Ezra 8:1
"These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that 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 Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty."
Ezra 8:4
"Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males."
Ezra 8:5
"Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males."
Ezra 8:6
"Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males."
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