translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZR

label: NET study note

text: The list of names and numbers in this chapter of Ezra has a parallel account in Neh 7:6-73 . The fact that the two lists do not always agree in specific details suggests that various textual errors have crept into the accounts during the transmission process.


text: The same total is given in Neh 7:66 , but it is difficult to understand how this number is reached, since the numbers of people listed in the constituent groups do not add up to 42,360. The list in vv. 3-60 apparently is not intended to be exhaustive, but the basis of the selectivity is unclear.


text: The מָנִים ( manim , cf. Neh 7:71, 72 ) is a measuring weight for valuable metals, equal to 1/60 of a talent or 60 shekels (BDB 584 s.v. מָנֶה ; HALOT 599 s.v. מָנֶה ). For further study, see R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel , 203-6.