# They were very capable men in the work

"These capable men worked"

# the house of God

the second temple, which the people built after they returned from Babylon

# fathers' houses

extended families, people related to each other who usually lived in different houses, clans

# numbered 1,760

"numbered one thousand and sixty priests" or "numbered seventeen hundred and sixty priests" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]])