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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezra 2:68 Catholic Bible: When the exiles arrived at the LORD's Temple in Jerusalem, some of the leaders of the clans gave freewill offerings to help rebuild the Temple on its old site. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/ezra/2-68.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/ezra/2-68.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/ezra/2-68.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/ezra/1.htm">Ezra</a> > <a href="/gntd/ezra/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 68</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezra/2-67.htm" title="Ezra 2:67">◄</a> Ezra 2:68 <a href="../ezra/2-69.htm" title="Ezra 2:69">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/ezra/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/ezra/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />When the exiles arrived at the LORD's Temple in Jerusalem, some of the leaders of the clans gave freewill offerings to help rebuild the Temple on its old site. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezra/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />As soon as they came to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of families made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/ezra/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />When the people came to where the LORD's temple had been in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders gave gifts so it could be rebuilt in the same place. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezra/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of ancestral houses made voluntary offerings for the house of God, to rebuild it in its place.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/ezra/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place.</p><p class="hdg">offered freely</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/35-5.htm">Exodus 35:5,29</a> Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/36-3.htm">Exodus 36:3</a> He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto them. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in the morning offered their vows.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/7-3.htm">Numbers 7:3</a> Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the tabernacle.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/29-5.htm">1 Chronicles 29:5-17</a> And gold for wheresoever there is need of gold: and silver for wheresoever there is need of silver, for the works to be made by the hands of the artificers: now if any man is willing to offer, let him fill his hand to day, and offer what he pleaseth to the Lord. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/7-70.htm">Nehemiah 7:70</a> And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work. Athersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty bowls, and five hundred and thirty garments for priests.</p><p class="hdg">etc.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/110-3.htm">Psalm 110:3</a> With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/21-1.htm">Luke 21:1-4</a> And looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the treasury. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/8-3.htm">2 Corinthians 8:3,12</a> For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond their power, they were willing: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/9-7.htm">2 Corinthians 9:7</a> Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.</p><p class="hdg">in his place</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/3-3.htm">Ezra 3:3</a> And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/21-18.htm">1 Chronicles 21:18</a> And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/22-1.htm">1 Chronicles 22:1</a> Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1</a> And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/ezra/2.htm">Offerings by the Exiles</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">68</span><span class="highl">And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place.</span><span class="reftext">69</span>According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the work, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of silver, and a hundred garments for the priests.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/25-2.htm">Exodus 25:2</a></span><br />Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/2-67.htm">Ezra 2:67</a></span><br />Their camels four hundred thirty-five, their asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/2-69.htm">Ezra 2:69</a></span><br />According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the work, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of silver, and a hundred garments for the priests.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/23-15.htm">Arrived</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/13-7.htm">Base</a> <a href="/ezra/1-3.htm">Building</a> <a href="/ezra/1-5.htm">Chief</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-18.htm">Erect</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/17-5.htm">Establish</a> <a href="/ezra/2-62.htm">Families</a> <a href="/ezra/2-59.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/31-7.htm">Foundation</a> <a href="/ezra/1-6.htm">Freely</a> <a href="/ezra/1-6.htm">Freewill</a> <a href="/ezra/1-5.htm">Heads</a> <a 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