How many of Adin's offspring returned from Babylon?

Textual conflict

Direct contradiction

The quoted passages make incompatible claims about the same subject under the same conditions. Little additional inference is needed.

Importance

Minor

A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.

Corresponding return-list entries assign Adin's family exact totals of 454 and 655 under the same counting formula.

An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.