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Nehemiah 7:72

The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold coins, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- 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 - Daric;   Minerals and Metals;   Nehemiah;   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;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven Kohanim' garments.
King James Version
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.
English Standard Version
And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests' garments.
New Century Version
The total of what the other people gave was about 375 pounds of gold, about 2,250 pounds of silver, and 67 pieces of clothing for the priests.
New English Translation
What the rest of the people gave amounted to 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.
Amplified Bible
And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priests' garments.
New American Standard Bible
What the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
World English Bible
That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the rest of the people gaue twentie thousand drammes of golde, and two thousande pieces of siluer, and three score & seuen Priestes garments.
Legacy Standard Bible
That which the rest of the people gave was 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,000 silver minas and 67 priests' tunics.
Berean Standard Bible
The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' coats.
Easy-to-Read Version
All together the other people gave 375 pounds of gold, 2500 pounds of silver, and 67 pieces of clothing for the priests.
George Lamsa Translation
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand pounds of silver and sixty-seven priests garments.
Good News Translation
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Lexham English Bible
And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics.
Literal Translation
And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand pieces of silver, and sixty seven priests' garments.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the other people gaue twetye thousande guldens, and two thousande pounde of siluer, and seue and thre score prestes garmentes.
American Standard Version
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' garments.
Bible in Basic English
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' robes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the other people gaue twentie thousand peeces of golde, and two thousand pound of siluer, and threescore and seuen priestes garmentes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities,
King James Version (1611)
And some of the chiefe of the fathers gaue to the treasure of the worke twentie thousand drammes of golde, and two thousand and two hundred pound of siluer. And that which the rest of the people gaue, was twentie thousand drammes of gold, and two thousand pound of siluer, and threescore and seuen priests garments. So the priests, and the Leuites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities: And when the seuenth moneth came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the rest of the people gave twenty thousand pieces of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.
English Revised Version
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' garments.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And that that the residue puple yaf, twenti thousynde dragmes of gold, and two thousynde besauntis of siluer, and seuene and sixti cootis of prestis.
Update Bible Version
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' garments.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [that] which the rest of the people gave [was] twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty seven priests' garments.
New King James Version
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly garments.
New Living Translation
The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold coins, about 2,500 pounds of silver, and 67 robes for the priests.
New Life Bible
The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold pieces, 2,000 silver pieces, and 67 sets of clothing for the religious leaders.
New Revised Standard
And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priestly robes.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, that which the rest of the people gave, was, of gold, twenty thousand darics, and, of silver, two thousand manehs, - and, tunics for priests, sixty-seven.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And that which the rest of the people gave, was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven garments for priests.
Revised Standard Version
And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
Young's Literal Translation
And that which the rest of the people have given [is] of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand, and of priests coats, sixty and seven.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That which the rest of the people gave was 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,000 silver minas and 67 priests' garments.

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

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:14 - wardrobe Ezra 2:69 - the treasure Nehemiah 10:28 - the rest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachms of gold,.... Worth as many pounds of our money, and somewhat more:

and two thousand pound of silver; of which :-:

and threescore and seven priests' garments; having been so long in Babylon, and no use of sacrifices, and so not of garments to minister in, no care was taken to provide any; which seems to be the reason why so many were given, when they returned to their own land, and sacrificed.

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.


 
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