Nehemiah 7:71
69 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
70 Some of the heads of the families contributed to the project. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.
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.
72 The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.
73 So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- And of the heads of the fathers they gave to the treasury of the work two myriads of gold darics, and two thousand and two hundred silver minas.
- ÅB
- Og noen av familiehodene gav til arbeidskassen tyve tusen dariker i gull og to tusen og to hundre miner i sølv.
- OTB
- Noen av familieoverhodene ga til skattekammeret for arbeidet 20 000 gull drakmer og 2 200 sølv miner.
- B1930
- Og nogen av familiehodene gav til arbeidskassen tyve tusen dariker i gull og to tusen og to hundre miner i sølv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 34:19
who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
Read in contextLuke 21:1–4
Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,
Read in context2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
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