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Nehemiah 7:69 Explained in Context
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Verse 69. 69Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
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Role in This Section
This verse counts 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.
Read It With
- Nehemiah 7:66–7:69
Read Nehemiah 7:66–7:69 together. This verse counts 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys. Read Nehemiah 7:66–7:69 as one complete scene: The register gives 42,360 for the congregation, counts male and female servants and singers, and inventories horses, mules, camels, and donkeys.
Why It Needs Context
This line performs one particular step inside Nehemiah 7:66–7:69; read it with the unit's movement. The grand total does not equal the visible subtotals, and figures differ across Ezra 2 and ancient versions; explanations remain disputed. Specifically, this verse counts 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.
Read Nehemiah 7:66–69 together
Why these verses belong together: The congregation total, separate servant and singer counts, and transport animals form one aggregate inventory.
Verse 66. 66 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Verse 67. 67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
Verse 68. 68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Verse 69. 69 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
Continue in Context
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Read Nehemiah 7:66–7:69 — People, enslaved servants, singers, and animals are totaledSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: Nehemiah 7:66–7:69, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nehemiah
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