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The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
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A Puzzling Number
Commentators unanimously note a significant discrepancy: the sum of the individual families listed previously (around 30,000) does not match the total given here (42,360). The most common scholarly explanation is that errors crept into the itemized lists over time or that the original documents were damaged and partly illegible.
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Ezra
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 o…
19th Century
Anglican
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousandthree hundred [and] threescore .…
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