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Ezra 6:17

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offered: Ezra 8:35; Numbers 7:2-89; 1 Kings 8:63-64; 1 Chronicles 16:1-3; 2 Chronicles 7:5, 2 Chronicles 29:31-35

a sin offering: Leviticus 4:3, Leviticus 4:13-14, Leviticus 4:22-23, Leviticus 4:28; 2 Chronicles 29:21-23

according to: Though the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, with the priests and Levites, formed the bulk of the people, yet many from the other tribes had returned with them from captivity. 1 Kings 18:31; Luke 22:30; Revelation 7:4-8, Revelation 21:12

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