Ezra 2:15

2:15 the descendants of Adin: 454;

Ezra 2:7

2:7 the descendants of Elam: 1,254;

Ezra 2:31

2:31 the descendants of the other Elam: 1,254;

Ezra 2:40

2:40 The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah): 74.

Ezra 1:10

1:10 30 gold bowls,

410 other ¹  silver bowls,

and 1,000 other vessels.

Ezra 2:64

2:64 The entire group numbered 42,360, ² 

Ezra 2:67

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

Ezra 6:19

6:19 ³  The exiles ⁴  observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Ezra 1:11

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

[1:10]  ¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term מִשְׁנִים (mishnim) is uncertain. The noun מִשְׁנֶה (mishneh) means “double, second” (BDB 1041 s.v.), “what is doubled, two-fold” (HALOT 650 s.v. מִשְׁנֶה 3). The translations reflect a diversity of approaches: “410 silver bowls of a second kind” (KJV, NASV, RSV margin), “410 other silver bowls” (NRSV) and “410 matching silver bowls” (NIV). BDB 1041 s.v. משׁנה 3.a suggests it was originally a numeral that was garbled in the transmission process, as reflected in the LXX: “two thousand” (so RSV: “two thousand four hundred and ten bowls of silver”). The BHS editor suggests revocalizing the term to מְשֻׁנִים (mÿshunim, “changed”).

[2:64]  ¹ sn The same total is given in Neh 7:66, but it is difficult to understand how this number is reached, since the numbers of people listed in the constituent groups do not add up to 42,360. The list in vv. 3-60 apparently is not intended to be exhaustive, but the basis of the selectivity is unclear.

[6:19]  ¹ 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.

[6:19]  ² tn Heb “the sons of the exile.” So also in v. 20.

[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.”