Ezra 2:68 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶⁸ After they arrived at the Lord’s house in Jerusalem, some of the family heads gave freewill offerings  for the house of God in order to have it rebuilt on its original site.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶⁸ And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶⁸ Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God to [re]build it on its site.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶⁸ And some of the heads of fathers’ houses, when they came to the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:

Common English Bible

⁶⁸ When they arrived at the LORD’s house in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families brought spontaneous gifts for the rebuilding of God’s house on its site.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶⁸ And some of the leaders among the fathers, when they entered into the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, freely offered some of these to the house of God, in order to construct it in its location.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶⁸ 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.

Ezra 2:68 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 21:18

So the angel of the Lord ordered Gad  to tell David to go and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said, ‘This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.’

2 Chronicles 3:1

Then Solomon began  to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah  where the Lord   had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing-floor of Ornan  the Jebusite.

Ezra 2:67

435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

Ezra 2:69

Based on what they could give, they gave 61,000 gold coins,  3 tonnes  of silver, and 100 priestly garments to the treasury  for the project.

Ezra 3:3

They set up the altar on its foundation and offered burnt offerings for the morning and evening on it to the Lord even though they feared the surrounding peoples.

Ezra 9:9

Though we are slaves,  our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings,  giving us relief, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins,  to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Exodus 25:2

‘Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.

Exodus 35:21

Everyone whose heart was moved and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the Lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.

Exodus 35:29

So the Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, all the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring something for all the work that the Lord, through Moses, had commanded to be done.

Exodus 36:3

They took from Moses’s presence all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

2 Corinthians 8:3

I can testify that, according to their ability and even beyond their ability, of their own accord,

2 Corinthians 9:7

Each person should do as he has decided in his heart #– #not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves  a cheerful giver.