For the old captains that were before me, had been chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, and forty sicles of silver: yea and their servants had oppressed the people. But so did not I, and that because of the fear of God.

The children of Zattu, eight hundred and five and forty;

The children of Binnui, six hundred and eight and forty;

The men of Bethazmaveth, two and forty;

The men of Kiriathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and three and forty;

The children of Jericho, three hundred and five and forty;

The children of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred and seven and forty;

The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and eight and forty.

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and two and forty.

The whole congregation as one man, was two and forty thousand, three hundred and threescore;

Beside their servants and maidens, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and seven and thirty. And they had two hundred and seven and forty singing men and women,

seven hundred and six and thirty horses, two hundred and five and forty Mules,

Forty years long madest thou provision for them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

and his brethren, chief among the fathers: of whom there were two hundred and two and forty. And Amahsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer: