Nehemiah 7:66
64 These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
65 The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
67 in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.
68 They had 736 horses, 245 mules,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
- KJV
- The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
- WEB
- The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
- ASV
- The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
- DARBY
- The whole congregation together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
- BLB
- All the assembly [was] as one—four myriads two thousand three hundred and sixty,
- ÅB
- Hele menigheten var i alt to og førti tusen tre hundre og seksti
- OTB
- Hele forsamlingen utgjorde 42 360,
- B1930
- Hele menigheten var i alt to og firti tusen tre hundre og seksti
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Ezra 2:64
The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
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