Nehemiah 7:66
New International Version
The whole company numbered 42,360,

New Living Translation
So a total of 42,360 people returned to Judah,

English Standard Version
The whole assembly together was 42,360,

Berean Standard Bible
The whole assembly numbered 42,360,

King James Bible
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

New King James Version
Altogether the whole assembly was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

New American Standard Bible
The whole assembly together totaled 42,360,

NASB 1995
The whole assembly together was 42,360,

NASB 1977
The whole assembly together was 42,360,

Legacy Standard Bible
The whole assembly together was 42,360,

Amplified Bible
The entire assembly together was 42,360,

Christian Standard Bible
The whole combined assembly numbered 42,360

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The whole combined assembly numbered 42,360

American Standard Version
The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

English Revised Version
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The whole assembly totaled 42,360.

International Standard Version
The entire assembly numbered 42,360,

Majority Standard Bible
The whole assembly numbered 42,360,

NET Bible
The entire group numbered 42,360,

New Heart English Bible
The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

Webster's Bible Translation
The whole congregation together was forty two thousand three hundred and sixty.

World English Bible
The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
All the assembly together [is] forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

Young's Literal Translation
All the assembly together is four myriads two thousand three hundred and sixty,

Smith's Literal Translation
All the convocation as one four myriads two thousand three hundred and sixty.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
All the multitude as it were one man, forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

Catholic Public Domain Version
The entire multitude, which was like one man, was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

New American Bible
The entire assembly taken together came to forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

New Revised Standard Version
The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
The whole congregation together was forty-two thousand four hundred and seventy.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
All of the assembly together was fortytwo thousand four hundred and seventy.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And all the congregation was about forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

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Context
The List of Returning Exiles
66The whole assembly numbered 42,360, 67in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.…

Cross References
Ezra 2:64
The whole assembly numbered 42,360,

Nehemiah 2:17-18
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.” / I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me. “Let us start rebuilding,” they replied, and they set their hands to this good work.

Nehemiah 6:15-16
So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul. / When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.

Nehemiah 8:1-3
At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel. / On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand. / So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

Nehemiah 11:1-2
Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, while the remaining nine were to dwell in their own towns. / And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:8-11
In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD. / So Jeshua and his sons and brothers, Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Yehudah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together to supervise those working on the house of God. / When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed. ...

Ezra 6:15-16
And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. / Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.

Ezra 7:6-10
this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him. / So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants. / Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king. ...

Ezra 8:1-14
These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes: / from the descendants of Phinehas, Gershom; from the descendants of Ithamar, Daniel; from the descendants of David, Hattush / of the descendants of Shecaniah; from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered 150 men; ...

1 Chronicles 9:1-2
So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness. / Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

1 Chronicles 23:3-5
The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000. / “Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges, / 4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”

2 Chronicles 36:22-23
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: / “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”

Isaiah 10:20-22
On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. / A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God. / Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Jeremiah 29:10-14
For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. / For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. / Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ...

Matthew 1:17
In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.


Treasury of Scripture

The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and three score,

Ezra 2:64
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

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Nehemiah 7
1. Nehemiah commits the charge of Jerusalem to Hanani and Hananiah
5. A register of the genealogy of them which came at the first out of Babylon
9. of the people
39. of the priests
43. of the Levites
46. of the Nethinims
57. of Solomon's servants
63. and of the priests which could not find their pedigree
66. The whole number of them, with their substance
70. Their offerings














The whole assembly
This phrase refers to the collective group of Israelites who returned from the Babylonian exile. The Hebrew word for "assembly" is "qahal," which often denotes a gathering of people for religious or communal purposes. Historically, this assembly represents the remnant of God's chosen people, emphasizing the fulfillment of God's promise to restore Israel. Theologically, it signifies the unity and identity of the Israelites as a covenant community, bound together by their shared faith and heritage.

numbered
The act of numbering or counting the people is significant in biblical history. The Hebrew root "manah" implies an orderly and purposeful enumeration. This census reflects the importance of each individual within the community and God's intimate knowledge of His people. It also serves a practical purpose, ensuring that the community is organized and prepared for the tasks ahead, such as rebuilding Jerusalem and reestablishing worship.

42,360
This specific number highlights the substantial size of the returning group, yet it is a remnant compared to the entire nation of Israel. The precision of this number underscores the historical accuracy and reliability of the biblical record. It also reflects God's faithfulness in preserving a remnant, as prophesied in the Scriptures. Theologically, it serves as a reminder of God's sovereignty and His ability to fulfill His promises despite human failure and adversity.

Verse 66. - The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore. It makes against the view of Bishop Patrick and others, who regard Ezra's list as made at Babylon, some time before the final departure, and Nehemiah's as made at Jerusalem, after the arrival of the exiles, that the sum total is in each case the same (see Ezra 2:64). Bishop Kennicott's theory, that the three lists - that of Ezra, that of Nehemiah, and that in the first of Esdras - had all one original, and that the existing differences proceed entirely from mistakes of the copyists, is the only tenable one. It is especially remarkable that the differences in the numbers of the three lists consist chiefly in a single unit, a single ten, or a single hundred - or in a five; less often in two units, or two tens, or two hundreds, or in a six - differences probably arising from the obliteration of one or two signs in a notation resembling the Roman or the Egyptian, where there are special signs for a thousand, a hundred, ten, five, and the unit, complex numbers being expressed by repetition of these, as 3438 in Latin inscriptions by MMMCCCCXXXVIII. Any fading of a sign in such a notation as this causes a copyist to diminish the amount by one, five, ten, a hundred, a thousand, etc. A fading of two sigmas may produce a diminution of two thousand, two hundred, twenty, two; or again of eleven hundred, one hundred and ten, one hundred and five, fifteen, eleven, six, and the like.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The whole
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

assembly
הַקָּהָ֖ל (haq·qā·hāl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation

[numbered]
כְּאֶחָ֑ד (kə·’e·ḥāḏ)
Preposition-k | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

42,360 {},
אַרְבַּ֣ע (’ar·ba‘)
Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's 702: Four


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