The sum total is given without any variation by Ezra, by Nehemiah (see the marginal reference), and by Esdras , who adds that in this reckoning onl…

This sum total is the same in Nehemiah; but the individual sums in Ezra make 29,818, and in Nehemiah 31,089. The apocryphal Esdras agrees with the …

The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand
three hundred [and] threescore .…

Let no one complain of the necessary expenses of their religion. Seek first the kingdom of God, his favour and his glory, then will all other t…