Ezra 2:64-70
God gathers His restored people, provides for their journey, receives their willing gifts, and settles them for renewed covenant life.
64 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
65 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
67 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
68 Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place.
69 They gave according to their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
70 So the priests and the Levites, with some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
God gathers his restored people, provides for their journey, receives their willing gifts, and settles them for renewed covenant life.
Ezra completes the return register by summarizing the whole returning assembly, its servants, singers, animals, offerings, and settlement, showing that the LORD's restoration involved a real gathered remnant who gave toward the rebuilt house of God and resumed life in their towns.
This unit completes Ezra 2's register: after enumerating families, towns, worship personnel, temple servants, and unresolved genealogical cases (2:1-63), Ezra provides totals, notes resources and animals, records freewill offerings for rebuilding God's house, and concludes with settlement in the land-preparing for the assembled worship actions of Ezra 3:1-6.
The return register reaches its conclusion after listing leaders, families, towns, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, and unresolved genealogical cases.