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Ezra 2:67 Explained in Context

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Verse 67. Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

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Quick Meaning

This verse records the returnees' camels and donkeys

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  • Ezra 2:64–70

Read Ezra 2:64–70 together. This verse records the returnees' camels and donkeys Read Ezra 2:64–70 as one complete Ezra thought unit: The register totals the congregation and support population, records animals and voluntary gifts for the temple, and closes with priests, Levites, people, singers, gatekeepers, servants, and Israel dwelling in towns.

Why This Verse Appears Here

The close links identity records to resources, settlement, and the communal worship movement that begins next. Within that movement, this verse records the returnees' camels and donkeys

Read Ezra 2:64–70 together

Why these verses belong together: The congregation total, servants, singers, animals, leadership gifts, treasury amounts, and settlement by town close the return register; 3:1 begins the seventh-month assembly.

Verse 64. The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

Verse 65. Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.

Verse 66. Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

Verse 67. Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

Verse 68. And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

Verse 69. They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

Verse 70. So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

What Remains True

Within Ezra's own literary movement, Ezra 2:67 records the returnees' camels and donkeys.

How It Can Shape Life

  • Apply Ezra 2:67 by noticing that it records the returnees' camels and donkeys; in a comparable situation, publish contribution and resettlement accounts with definitions, capacity-sensitive expectations, and a reconciliation note for unresolved totals.

Continue in Context

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Read Ezra 2:64–70 — Totals, gifts, and settlement close the register
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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.

Exact location: Ezra 2:64–70, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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hebrew aramaic text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezra

Open Scriptures

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezra.xml, Hebrew and Aramaic words and morphology for 2:64–70

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translation and translator notes

NET Bible: Ezra with translators' notes

Biblical Studies Press

Biblical Studies Press, 2006

Supports: Material lexical, grammatical, textual, Persian-period, numerical, and translation notes within the unit.

Exact location: NET Bible Ezra PDF, printed pp. 749–751, translation and translator notes on 2:64–70

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