from (A)twenty years old and above—all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

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You and Aaron(A) are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more(B) and able to serve in the army.(C)

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Restoration of the Temple Begins

Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, (A)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of [a]Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began work (B)and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the house of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 3:8 Jehozadak, 1 Chr. 6:14

In the second month(A) of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel(B) son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty(C) years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the Lord.

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