Ezra 2:67

2:67 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

Ezra 6:2

6:2 A scroll was found in the citadel ¹  of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows:

“Memorandum:

Ezra 8:30

8:30 Then the priests and the Levites took charge of ²  the silver, the gold, and the vessels that had been weighed out, to transport them to Jerusalem to the temple of our God.

Ezra 10:17

10:17 and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.

Ezra 10:44

10:44 All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women. ³ 

¹ tc The translation reads בִירְתָא (birta’, citadel”) rather than the reading בְּבִירְתָא (bÿvireta’, “in the citadel”) found in the MT. The MT probably experienced dittography here.

¹ tn Heb “received.”

¹ tc The final statement in v. 44 is difficult in terms of both its syntax and its meaning. The present translation attempts to make sense of the MT. But the passage may have undergone corruption in the transmission process. One proposal is that the text should be emended to read “and they sent these wives and children away” (cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, CEV).