1 Esdras 8:66
King James VersionSource notes
“Threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.”
Context
63And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabad the son of Jesu and Moeth the son of Sabban, Levites: all was delivered them by number and weight.
64And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.
65Moreover they that were come out of the captivity offered sacrifice unto the Lord God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,
66Threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
67And they delivered the king’s commandments unto the king’s stewards’ and to the governors of Celosyria and Phenice; and they honoured the people and the temple of God.
68Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said,
69The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.