Working through Bob Johnson's report on NEH 7-8

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 \v 1 When the wall was finished and I had set up the doors in place, and the gatekeepers and singers and Levites had been appointed,
-\v 2 I gave my brother Hanani charge over Jerusalem, along with Hananiah who had oversight of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.
+\v 2 I gave my brother Hanani charge over Jerusalem, along with Hananiah who had oversight of the fortress, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.
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 \v 3 I said to them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While the gatekeepers are on guard, you may shut the doors and bar them. Appoint guards from those who live in Jerusalem, some at the place of their guard station, and some in front of their own homes."
 \v 4 Now the city was wide and large, but there were few people within it, and no houses had yet been rebuilt.
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 \v 70 Some from among the heads of ancestors' families gave gifts for the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, 50 basins, and 530 priestly garments.
 \f + \ft The Hebrew text has \fqa thirty priestly garments \fqb , but it is difficult to understand. Most modern versions have \fqa 530 priestly garments \fqb . However, some recommend reading \fqa thirty priestly garments and five hundred minas of silver \fqb . \f*
 \v 71 Some of the heads of ancestors' families gave into the treasury for the work twenty thousand darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
-\v 72 The rest of the people gave twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven robes for the priests.
+\v 72 The rest of the people gave twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priestly garments.
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 \v 73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel lived in their cities.

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 \v 13 On the second day the leaders of the ancestors' families from all the people, the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe to gain insight from the words of the law.
 \v 14 They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded through Moses that the people of Israel should live in tents during the festival of the seventh month.
-\v 15 They should make a proclamation in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out into the hill country, and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtle, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters, as it is written."
+\v 15 They should make a proclamation in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out into the hill country, and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtle, palms and shade trees, to make tents, as it is written."
 
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-\v 16 So the people went out and brought the branches back and made themselves tents, each on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, in the open place by the Water Gate, and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.
+\v 16 So the people went out and brought the branches back and made themselves tents, each on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, in the open area in front of the Water Gate, and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.
 \v 17 All the assembly of those who had returned from captivity made tents and lived in them. For since the days of Joshua son of Nun to that day, the people of Israel had not celebrated this festival, and so their joy was very great.
 
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