ContradictionsReading order 512Bible context 1 min read
How much gold, silver, and clothing did the people give?
The listed donations differ in gold, silver, and clothing, but Nehemiah expressly describes only what the rest of the people gave.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Incidental
- A small detail with little effect on the wider account.
Nehemiah explicitly counts gifts from the rest of the people, so its smaller amounts are not securely rival totals for Ezra's donors.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The offering includes sixty-one thousand gold drams and one hundred garments
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
Ezra 2:69
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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The rest of the people give twenty thousand gold drams and sixty-seven garments
And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests’ garments.
Nehemiah 7:72
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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