Ezra 2:66

66 The horses of them were six hundred and six and thirty; the mules of them, four hundred and five and forty;

Ezra 2:66 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 66,67 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six,
their mules two hundred forty and five, their camels four hundred
thirty and five, [their] asses six thousand seven hundred and
twenty.
] So that the far greatest part of them must walk on foot, since these can be thought to be little more than sufficient to carry their goods or baggage; some copies of the Vulgate Latin read six hundred and thirty six horses F3.


FOOTNOTES:

F3 Ed. of Sixtus V. and the Lovain in James's Contrariety of Popish Bibles, p. 295.

Ezra 2:66 In-Context

64 All the multitude being as one man, were two and forty thousand three hundred and sixty, (All the multitude being like one person, were forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,)
65 besides the servants of them and the handmaids, which were seven thousand three hundred and seven and thirty; and among them were singers and singeresses, two hundred. (besides their servants and servantesses, who were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and among them were two hundred singers and singeresses.)
66 The horses of them were six hundred and six and thirty; the mules of them, four hundred and five and forty;
67 the camels of them, four hundred and five and thirty; the asses of them, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
68 And of the princes of [the] fathers, when they entered into the temple of the Lord, that is, the place where the temple was, (or formerly had been,) which is in Jerusalem, they offered of their free will into the house of God, to build it (again) in his place; (And the leaders of the families of the tribes, when they went to the place in Jerusalem where the Temple of the Lord had been, offered their free will offerings to help rebuild the House of God, in its former place;)
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