Nehemiah 7:69
in Nehemiah 7435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
KJV
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
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This verse in Nehemiah 7
Commentary
4 notes on this verseTheir camels, four hundred thirty and five - After this verse St. Jerome has inserted the following words in the Vulgate: - Hucusque refertur quid in commentario scriptum fuerit; exin Nehemiae historia texitur. “Thus far do the words extend which were written in the register; what follows belongs to the history of Nehemiah.” But this addition is not found either in the Hebrew or any of the ancient versions. It is wanting also in the Complutum and Paris Polyglots, but is in the Editio Prima of the Vulgate.
This site's exposition
The whole congregation together
on Nehemiah 7:66-69
The final tally counts the whole congregation together at forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, then adds servants, singers and livestock, horses, mules, camels and asses down to the last count. Ezra's parallel register gives the same total, 42,360, though the two chapters' own family sums do not add up to that number identically in either book, a gap the commentators note without resolving. A remnant this small is still counted to the animal, because every returning household mattered enough to write down.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Or perhaps one was the account of them when they set out from Babylon with Zerubbabel, the other when they came to Jerusalem. The sum totals are all just the same there and here, except of the singing-men and singing-women, which there are 200, here 245.
He appointed the porters, singers, and Levites, in their places to their work. This is meant of their work in general, which was to attend the temple service; it had been neglected in some degree, but now was revived. God's worship is the defence of a place, and his ministers, when they mind their duty, are watchmen on the walls.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| גְּמַלִּ֕ים | gemalim | camels | H1581 → | |
| אַרְבַּ֥ע | ʾarba' | four | H702 → | 318 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים | sheloshim | thirty | H7970 → | 172 times |
| וַחֲמִשָּׁ֑ה ס | vachamishah | and five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| חֲמֹרִ֕ים | chamorim | donkeys | H2543 → | |
| שֵׁ֣שֶׁת | sheshet | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| אֲלָפִ֔ים | ʾalafim | thousand<s> | H505 → | 505 times |
| שְׁבַ֥ע | sheva' | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ | veesrim | and twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
גְּמַלִּ֕יםcamels
gemalimH1581 →
אַרְבַּ֥עfour
ʾarba'H702 →318 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
שְׁלֹשִׁ֣יםthirty
sheloshimH7970 →172 times
וַחֲמִשָּׁ֑ה סand five
vachamishahH2568 →343 times
חֲמֹרִ֕יםdonkeys
chamorimH2543 →
שֵׁ֣שֶׁתsix
sheshetH8337 →216 times
אֲלָפִ֔יםthousand<s>
ʾalafimH505 →505 times
שְׁבַ֥עseven
sheva'H7651 →394 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃and twenty
veesrimH6242 →315 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.