Nehemiah 7:12
the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
BSB
ASV
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
KJV
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk6
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Ezra 10:26From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.
leads to
the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
from the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men;
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is…
Through
Ezra 2:7the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
leads to
From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.