Biblical Reading and Reflection: Ezra 2
Alastair's Adversaria
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The Numbering of the Returnees in the Book of Numbers
Ezra chapter two speaks of a company returning to the land and concludes with a list of the gifts that they brought with them for the temple. By steinman's reckoning, the persons mentioned in ezra add up to 29 thousand 818 while those mentioned in nehemiah add up to 31 thousand and 89. Various explanations have been proposed make sense of these discrepancies.
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