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         <div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZR.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZR.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZR.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZR.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites&#8212;everyone whose heart God had moved&#8212;prepared to go up and build the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZR.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">All their neighbors assisted them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuable gifts, in addition to all the freewill offerings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZR.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">gods</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZR.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZR.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZR.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This was the inventory:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZR.1.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZR.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZR.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came up from Babylon to Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZR.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to their own town, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">in company with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah):</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.2.2"><span class="content">The list of the men of the people of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZR.2.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZR.2.35"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZR.2.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EZR.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The priests:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="EZR.2.39"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="EZR.2.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="EZR.2.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">The Levites:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="EZR.2.40"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="EZR.2.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="EZR.2.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The musicians:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="EZR.2.41"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="EZR.2.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="EZR.2.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The gatekeepers of the temple:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="EZR.2.42"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="EZR.2.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="EZR.2.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">The temple servants:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="EZR.2.54"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="EZR.2.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="EZR.2.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">The descendants of the servants of Solomon:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="EZR.2.57"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="EZR.2.58"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="EZR.2.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="EZR.2.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="EZR.2.60"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="EZR.2.60"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="EZR.2.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">And from among the priests:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="EZR.2.61"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="EZR.2.62"><span class="label">62</span><span class="content">These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="EZR.2.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="EZR.2.63"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="EZR.2.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">The whole company numbered 42,360, </span></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="EZR.2.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">besides their 7,337 male and female slaves; and they also had 200 male and female singers. </span></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="EZR.2.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">They had 736 horses, 245 mules, </span></span><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="EZR.2.67"><span class="label">67</span><span class="content">435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="EZR.2.67"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="EZR.2.68"><span class="label">68</span><span class="content">When they arrived at the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site. </span></span><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="EZR.2.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">According to their ability they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:69 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1,100 pounds or about 500 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, 5,000 minas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:69 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 tons or about 2.8 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and 100 priestly garments.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="EZR.2.69"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="EZR.2.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">The priests, the Levites, the musicians, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.</span></span></div>
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