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 2:65

2:65 not counting ²  their male and female servants, who numbered 7,337. They also had 200 male and female singers

Ezra 8:26

8:26 I weighed out to them ³  650 talents of silver, silver vessels worth 100 talents, ⁴  100 talents of gold,

[1:11]  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.”

[2:65]  ² tn Heb “besides” or “in addition to.”

[8:26]  ³ tn Heb “upon their hand.”

[8:26]  ⁴ tn Possibly “100 silver vessels worth [?] talents” or “silver vessels weighing 100 talents.”