Ezra 2:63-67

Contemporary English Version

⁶³^(A) In fact, the governor^[a] told them, “You cannot eat the food offered to God until we find out if you really are priests.”^[b]

^64-67There were 42,360 who returned, in addition to 7,337 servants and 200 musicians, both women and men. They brought with them 736 horses, 245 mules, 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

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Footnotes

2.63 governor: In Nehemiah 8.9; 10.1, this same title is used of Nehemiah, though it is doubtful if he is the one referred to here.
2.63 until … priests: The Hebrew text has “until a priest comes with the urim and thummim,” sacred objects which were used in some way to receive answers from God.