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John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 8:34

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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By number and by weight of everyone, etc.] 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.
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