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Nehemiah 7:69-71
Modern English Version
Nehemiah 7:69-71
Modern English Version
69 their camels, four hundred and thirty-five; the donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
70 Some of the chiefs of the fathers’ households gave to the work. The magistrate gave to the treasury one thousand gold drachmas,[a] fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priests’ garments. 71 Others of the chiefs of the fathers’ households gave to the treasury for the work twenty thousand gold drachmas[b] and two thousand two hundred silver minas.[c]
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- Nehemiah 7:70 About 19 pounds, or 8.4 kilograms.
- Nehemiah 7:71 About 375 pounds, or 170 kilograms; and in v. 72.
- Nehemiah 7:71 About 1⅓ tons, or 1.2 metric tons.
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