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Published: 19.11.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther', 1.
  • Essays 'Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther', 2.
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EZRA
i.9-11: Bad Maths: And this is the number of them: Thirty charges of gold, a thousand charges of silver, nine and twenty knives, Thirty basins of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hundred and ten, and vessels a thousand. All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. Even if all these items were composed of silver and gold, they would not total 5,400 (30+ 1,000+ 29 + 30 + 410 + 1,000=2,499 not 5,400).
II: Both Ezra and Nehemiah give a list of those nations that left bondage, and as you would expect by now, both contradict each other continuously. …

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