Ezra 8:34

Everything was verified by number and weight, and the total weight was recorded at that time.

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KJV

By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

ASV

the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was written at that time.

YLT

by number, by weight of every one, and all the weight is written at that time.

DBT

the whole by number and by weight; and all the weight was written down at that time.

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And every weight was recorded in that time. For the priests in the temple record all the weight of silver and gold, and of the vessels offered to the Lord, just as diligent teachers examine the lives of those under them, and discern by careful …

Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735patristic

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By number and by weight of everyone,.... They were delivered in by tale and weight, which exactly agreed to the number and weight in which they received them: and all the weight was written at that time; an account was taken in writing, and laid up, that it might not only be known hereafter what freewill offerings had been made in Babylon, but that it might be a voucher for the fidelity and integrity of those that brought them, should it ever be called in question.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

The returned exiles offered burnt offerings, and Ezra delivered the royal commission to the satraps and inferior magistrates; while the Levitical portion of them lent all the assistance they could in performing the additional work which the arrival of so many new worshippers occasioned.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

It is a great ease to one's mind to be discharged from a trust, and a great honour to one's name to be able to make it appear that it has been faithfully discharged. That his companions were devout. As soon as they came to be near the altar they thought themselves obliged to offer sacrifice, whatever they had done in Babylon,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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About this book

Ezra Kneels in Prayer — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Ezra — The return in two waves — Zerubbabel's altar and temple (538 BC) and Ezra's reforming arrival (458 BC). A book about rebuilding — the temple, the Torah-teaching community, and the covenant boundary.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Ezra (traditional); the book uses first-person narrative in chs. 7–10
Date: Events 538–458 BC; compilation c. mid-5th century BC