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65 The governor[a] ordered them not to eat anything holy until a priest would be installed with Urim and Thummim.[b]

66 The entire assembly numbered 42,360, 67 not including their 7,337 male and female servants. They had 245[c] men and women singers.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:65 Lit. Tirshatha; i.e. a Persian title
  2. Nehemiah 7:65 I.e. a high priest to whom God would reveal his will through the jewel-encrusted breastplate that he wore; cf. Exod 28:30, Ezra 2:63
  3. Nehemiah 7:67 Cf. Ezra 2:65 200