Ezra 1:11

1:11 All these gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400. ¹  Sheshbazzar brought them all along when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Ezra 6:16

6:16 The people ²  of Israel – the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles ³  – observed the dedication of this temple of God with joy.

Ezra 6:19-20

6:19 ⁴  The exiles ⁵  observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6:20 The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, ⁶  and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues ⁷  the priests, and for themselves.

Ezra 10:7

10:7 A proclamation ⁸  was circulated ⁹  throughout Judah and Jerusalem ¹⁰  that all the exiles were to be assembled in Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ¹¹  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ¹²  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

Daniel 5:13

5:13 So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives of Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?

¹ sn The total number as given in the MT does not match the numbers given for the various items in v. 9. It is not clear whether the difference is due to error in textual transmission or whether the constituent items mentioned are only a selection from a longer list, in which case the total from that longer list may have been retained. The numbers provided in 1 Esdras come much closer to agreeing with the number in Ezra 1:9-11, but this does not necessarily mean that 1 Esdras has been better preserved here than Ezra. 1 Esdras 2:13-15 (RSV) says, “The number of these was: a thousand gold cups, a thousand silver cups, twenty-nine silver censures, thirty gold bowls, two thousand four hundred and ten silver bowls, and a thousand other vessels. All the vessels were handed over, gold and silver, five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine, and they were carried back by Shesbazzar with the returning exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem.”

² tn Aram “sons of.”

³ tn Aram “sons of the exile.”

⁴ sn At this point the language of the book reverts from Aramaic (4:8–6:18) back to Hebrew. Aramaic will again be used in Ezra 7:12-26.

⁵ tn Heb “the sons of the exile.” So also in v. 20.

⁶ tn Heb “as one.” The expression is best understood as referring to the unity shown by the religious leaders in preparing themselves for the observance of Passover. On the meaning of the Hebrew phrase see DCH 1:182 s.v. אֶחָד 3b. See also HALOT 30 s.v. אֶחָד 5.

⁷ tn Heb “brothers.”

⁸ tn Heb “voice.”

⁹ tn Heb “they sent.”

¹⁰ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹¹ tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadÿlu, “were separated”) of the MT.

¹² tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”