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Nehemiah 7:71

Some of the family heads gave 20,000 gold coins and 2,200 silver minas to the treasury for the project.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dram;   Levites;   Liberality;   Pound;   Priest;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Liberality;   Weights;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pound;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Daric;   Maneh;   Pound;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Daric;   Drams;   Ezra, the Book of;   Money;   Nehemiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acud;   Ammidioi;   Ezra, Book of;   Hagab;   Kilan;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Weights and Measures;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Daric;   Money;   Pound;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Coins;   Daric;   Maneh;   Treasure;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Ezra, Book of;   Money;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
King James Version
And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
English Standard Version
And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
New Century Version
Some of the family leaders gave about 375 pounds of gold and about 2,660 pounds of silver to the treasury for the work.
New English Translation
Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.
Amplified Bible
Some of the heads of fathers' households gave to the treasury for the work 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.
New American Standard Bible
And some of the heads of fathers' households gave to the treasury for the work twenty thousand gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.
World English Bible
Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand drams of golde, and two thousande and two hundreth pieces of siluer.
Legacy Standard Bible
Some of the heads of fathers' households gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.
Berean Standard Bible
And some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the project 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
And [some] of the chief fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
Easy-to-Read Version
The family leaders gave 375 pounds of gold to the treasury to support the work. They also gave 2750 pounds of silver.
George Lamsa Translation
And some of the chiefs of the fathers gave to the treasury for the work twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
Good News Translation
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Lexham English Bible
Now some of the heads of the families gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas.
Literal Translation
And some of the heads of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pieces of silver.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And some of the chefe fathers gaue vnto ye treasure of the worke, twetye thousande guldens, two thousande and two hundreth poude of siluer.
American Standard Version
And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
Bible in Basic English
And some of the heads of families gave into the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand peeces of gold, & two thousand and two hundred pounde of siluer.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and threescore and seven priests' tunics.
King James Version (1611)
And some of the chiefe of the fathers, gaue vnto the worke: The Tirshatha gaue to the treasure, a thousand drammes of gold, fiftie basons, fiue hundred and thirtie priests garments.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And some of the heads of families gave into the treasuries of the work, twenty thousand pieces of gold, and two thousand three hundred pounds of silver.
English Revised Version
And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And of the prynces of meynees thei yauen in to the tresour of the werk, twenti thousynde dragmes of gold, and two thousynde and two hundrid besauntis of siluer.
Update Bible Version
And some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [some] of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
New King James Version
Some of the heads of the fathers' houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold drachmas, and two thousand two hundred silver minas.
New Living Translation
The other leaders gave to the treasury a total of 20,000 gold coins and some 2,750 pounds of silver for the work.
New Life Bible
And some of the leaders of family groups gave 20,000 gold pieces and 2,200 silver pieces.
New Revised Standard
And some of the heads of ancestral houses gave into the building fund twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, some of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the treasury of the work, of gold, twenty thousand darics, - and, of silver, two thousand and two hundred manehs;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And some of the heads of families gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
Revised Standard Version
And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
Young's Literal Translation
And of the heads of the fathers they have given to the treasure of the work, of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand and two hundred.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Some of the heads of fathers' households gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.

Contextual Overview

5Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it: 6These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town. 7They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. 8Parosh’s descendants 2,172 9Shephatiah’s descendants 372 10Arah’s descendants 652 11Pahath-moab’s descendants: 12Elam’s descendants 1,254 13Zattu’s descendants 845 14Zaccai’s descendants 760

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chief: Job 34:19, Luke 21:1-4, 2 Corinthians 8:12

pound: Manim, manehs or minas, As a weight, the maneh was equal to 100 shekels; but as a coin, equal to 60 shekels, or about 9.

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:19 - the treasury Ezra 2:69 - the treasure Ezra 8:1 - the chief

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work,.... To be put into the treasure, out of which the expenses of the temple, and service of it were defrayed:

twenty thousand drachms of gold; which were so many pounds of our money, and somewhat more: for, according to Bishop Cumberland f, a drachm of gold was of the value of twenty shillings and four pence: and 2200 pounds of silver; "the maneh", or pound, with the Jews, was of the value of sixty shekels, Ezekiel 45:12 and so is reckoned by our Brerewood g to be of our money seven pounds and ten shillings; he reckoning a shekel at half a crown, whereas it was little more than two shillings and four pence; and so sixty of them, or a "maneh", came to about seven pounds; wherefore this sum here was seven times so many pounds of silver.

f Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 115. g De Ponder & Pret. Vet. Num. c. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compared with Ezra 2:69 there is considerable difference between the totals for gold, silver, and garments. The usual explanation is that of corruption in the one or the other of the passages.

Nehemiah 7:73

Dwelt in their cities - Nehemiah’s quotation from Zerubbabel’s register ends here, and the narration of events in Jerusalem in his own day is resumed from Nehemiah 7:3. The narrative Nehemiah 8:0; Nehemiah 10:0 appears from internal evidence to be by a different author (see the introduction of the Book of Nehemiah).

The last two clauses of Nehemiah 7:73 should stand as the beginning of Nehemiah 8:0 (as in the Septuagint). The text would then run: “And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities, the whole people gathered themselves together as one man,” etc. Compare the margin reference.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 71. Two thousand and two hundred pounds — The Septuagint has two thousand THREE hundred minae of silver.


 
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