Nehemiah 7:66

All the multitude as it were one man, forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

In Context

65And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holies of holies, until there stood up a priest learned and skilful.

67Beside their menservants and womenservants, who were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and singing women, two hundred forty-five.

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Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 7:6-73

The Register of the Captives. ( b. c. 445.) 5 And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein, 6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his… Read the whole commentary →

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