reply to post by iesus_freak
Ok I can see the rounding down of the clans of Levi.
#4 you have to add numbers together (the problem you had was that in v 9 it was specifying gold while in v11 it ws adding gold and silver together as
it says)
Lets see Ezra 1:9 -10 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, Thirty basons of
gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
verse 9 contains 30 gold, 1000
silver, 29 knives; v 10 30 gold, 410 silver and 1000 other items (whether of gold or silver??). Totaling all
these including the silver = 2499. Not the 5469 as stated in verse 11
#2 there may be a specific purpose for the list so some people may be left out
A specific purpose that would change the totals between Ezra
and Nehemiah and even the totals from some of the peoples but still give the total of the whole assembly as 42360?
#3 mistranslated numbers
Mistranslated in two different books?
You would think that if these books were inspired by god then they would know that rabbits don't chew the cud, insects don't have 4 legs and camels
are part footed.
What we can deduce is that the bible contains errors and contradictions. As we don't have the originals then who can say for sure what was
mistranslated or edited?
Added:- Checked your other scriptures and answered at the bottom of the last page, Abiathar is not Ahimelech.
G
[edit on 15-7-2008 by shihulud]