Allow Me to Explain (53 of 439) – Counting Heads Again

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53. How many of Bebai’s offspring returned from Babylon? Ezra 2:11 vs. Neh 7:16

I can’t wait until we get through all of these.

Over 30 families, not to mention the Levites, are accounted for and numbered by Ezra and Nehemiah. Most of the numbers are exactly the same. A few are different, so we’ve pulled each of the differences out as a unique “contradiction,” because it adds more sensational redlines to the pretty picture. *eye roll*

Not to mention it’s weak. We discussed it here regarding Adin’s family, and linked to it again when Adonikam’s family came up … and again when Arah’s and Asaph’s and Azgad’s and Bani’s families came up. It’s the same story.

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  1. […] of those, like this one, are probably the result of copyist error or the mistranslation of a digit. Some, like this one, […]

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