How many of Lod, Hadid, and Ono's offspring returned from Babylon?

The combined count for the same three places differs by four people.

Textual conflict: Direct contradiction; The quoted passages make incompatible claims about the same subject under the same conditions. Little additional inference is needed.
Importance: Incidental; A small detail with little effect on the wider account.

The same three-place return group receives exact totals of 725 and 721 without a stated change in scope.

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

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Lod, Hadid, and Ono together number seven hundred twenty-five

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.

Ezra 2:33

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Lod, Hadid, and Ono together number seven hundred twenty-one

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.

Nehemiah 7:37

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Understanding the contradiction

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Ezra 2:33 groups Lod, Hadid, and Ono in a single entry with 725 people. Nehemiah 7:37 names all three places in the same order but supplies 721. Neither verse divides the total among the individual places.

Because the geographical grouping agrees, the discrepancy cannot be explained simply by adding a town included in only one entry. The combined numbers differ by four. The supplied wording also gives no indication that one list counts families while the other counts people. When the verses are treated as parallel records of the returned group, their exact totals conflict. They identify the size of the difference but do not reveal its origin.

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Lod, Hadid, and Ono together number seven hundred twenty-five

Lod, Hadid, and Ono together number seven hundred twenty-one

Understanding the contradiction

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