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Nehemiah 7:67 Explained in Context
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Verse 67. 67Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
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Quick Meaning
This verse separately counts 7,337 male and female servants and 245 male and female singers.
Read It With
- Nehemiah 7:66–7:69
Read Nehemiah 7:66–7:69 together. This verse separately counts 7,337 male and female servants and 245 male and female singers. Read Nehemiah 7:66–7:69 as one complete scene: The register gives 42,360 for the congregation, counts male and female servants and singers, and inventories horses, mules, camels, and donkeys.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The congregation total, separate servant and singer counts, and transport animals form one aggregate inventory. Its placement advances the book. The census exposes a social order that counts enslaved people alongside resources; those people must be restored to view as persons rather than inventory. Within that movement, this verse separately counts 7,337 male and female servants and 245 male and female singers.
Read Nehemiah 7:66–69 together
Why these verses belong together: The congregation total, separate servant and singer counts, and transport animals form one aggregate inventory.
Verse 66. 66 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Verse 67. 67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
Verse 68. 68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Verse 69. 69 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
Follow the Context
- The register gives 42,360 for the congregation, counts male and female servants and singers, and inventories horses, mules, camels, and donkeys.
- The census exposes a social order that counts enslaved people alongside resources; those people must be restored to view as persons rather than inventory.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Nehemiah 7:67 does not reduce its distinct role—separately counts 7,337 male and female servants and 245 male and female singers—to a standalone claim or rule; read it within Nehemiah 7:66–7:69. Counting servants does not endorse enslavement, ownership of people, or treating any human being as an asset.
What Remains True
Within Nehemiah 7:66–7:69, Nehemiah 7:67 separately counts 7,337 male and female servants and 245 male and female singers. Reading historical totals responsibly distinguishes persons from property and asks whose lives the categories obscure.
How It Can Shape Life
- At Nehemiah 7:67, attend to how the verse separately counts 7,337 male and female servants and 245 male and female singers. Honor the people hidden inside inherited records as persons: name coercive status truthfully, separate human lives from assets, and refuse dehumanizing categories in present systems.
Teach It Back
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Read Nehemiah 7:66–7:69 — People, enslaved servants, singers, and animals are totaledSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The grand total does not equal the visible subtotals, and figures differ across Ezra 2 and ancient versions; explanations remain disputed.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: Nehemiah 7:66–7:69, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nehemiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Neh.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 7:66–7:69
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NET Bible: Nehemiah with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded KJV comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, literary, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence in the notes is not treated as positive evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Nehemiah PDF, printed pp. 770–772, translation text and any translator notes printed for 7:66–7:69
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