Translations
Modern
…435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
Traditional
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
Literal
…their camels four hundred thirty-five, and the donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
Latin
…cameli eorum, quadringenti triginta quinque, asini eorum, sex millia septingenti viginti.
Original
Hebrew
English
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
Notes
This chapter is Ezra's first major digression from the main story. The returning exiles needed to identify true Jews to maintain their community identity and theological purity. This helped them know whom they could marry and who could worship at the temple. This list is not the initial list of all Jews who returned to Jerusalem (compare Nehemiah 7:6–73). Instead, it is a slightly later list, created after Sheshbazzar died, of people who had settled in their towns.
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