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Nehemiah 7:71
Nehemiah 7:71 is verse 71 of Nehemiah chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the project 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
Or 20,000 gold drachmas; that is, approximately 370.4 pounds or 168 kilograms of gold coins; also in verse 72
Or 2,200 silver minas; that is, approximately 1.38 tons or 1.25 metric tons of silver
King James Version
And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
World English Bible
Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 2,200 minas is about 1.3 metric tons.
Read in context
Nehemiah 7:69–73 · Berean Standard Bible
69 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
70 Some of the heads of the families contributed to the project. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.
71 And some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the project 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
72 The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.
73 So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
Luke 21:1Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,
Luke 21:2and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
Luke 21:3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
Luke 21:4For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
2 Corinthians 8:12For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.