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## Ezra 2:68-69 in Context (Verses 65–70 KJV)
 
 [65 ](/kjv/ezra/2/65) 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.
 
 [66 ](/kjv/ezra/2/66) Their horses *were* seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
 
 [67 ](/kjv/ezra/2/67) Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; *their* asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
 
 [68 ](/kjv/ezra/2/68) ¶ 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:
 
 [69 ](/kjv/ezra/2/69) 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.
 
 [70 ](/kjv/ezra/2/70) 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.
 
[Ezra 1](/kjv/ezra/1) [Ezra 3](/kjv/ezra/3)

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