Nehemiah Chapter 7 verse 66 Holy Bible
The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
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The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty;
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The whole congregation together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
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The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
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The whole congregation together was forty two thousand three hundred and sixty.
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The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
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All the assembly together `is' four myriads two thousand three hundred and sixty,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 66. - The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore. It makes against the view of Bishop Patrick and others, who regard Ezra's list as made at Babylon, some time before the final departure, and Nehemiah's as made at Jerusalem, after the arrival of the exiles, that the sum total is in each case the same (see Ezra 2:64). Bishop Kennicott's theory, that the three lists - that of Ezra, that of Nehemiah, and that in the first of Esdras - had all one original, and that the existing differences proceed entirely from mistakes of the copyists, is the only tenable one. It is especially remarkable that the differences in the numbers of the three lists consist chiefly in a single unit, a single ten, or a single hundred - or in a five; less often in two units, or two tens, or two hundreds, or in a six - differences probably arising from the obliteration of one or two signs in a notation resembling the Roman or the Egyptian, where there are special signs for a thousand, a hundred, ten, five, and the unit, complex numbers being expressed by repetition of these, as 3438 in Latin inscriptions by MMMCCCCXXXVIII. Any fading of a sign in such a notation as this causes a copyist to diminish the amount by one, five, ten, a hundred, a thousand, etc. A fading of two sigmas may produce a diminution of two thousand, two hundred, twenty, two; or again of eleven hundred, one hundred and ten, one hundred and five, fifteen, eleven, six, and the like.
