Nehemiah 7:69–8:1

^69k there were four hundred and thirty-five camels and six thousand seven hundred and twenty male donkeys.

⁷⁰Now some from the heads of the families^l gave to the work. The governor gave to the storehouse one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly tunics. ⁷¹Now some of the heads of the families^m gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas. ⁷²And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics.

⁷³So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month came, the Israelitesⁿ were in their cities.

Ezra Reads the Law to the People

8All of the people gathered as one to the public square before the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law^a of Moses that Yahweh had commanded Israel.