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Jeremiah 52:28

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This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Jews;

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Verse 28. Seventh year of Nabuchodonosor, and last of Joakim. 4 Kennicott. Septuagint Rom. omits this and the next verse, which are found in Theodoret and the Compl. edit. Calmet.—Grabe supplies all from, And Juda, verse 27, to 31. Bible.—Zuinglius observes that the Septuagint have not a fragment of it, and that it has been added by some one to hide the ignominy of the Jews. It is interpolated in the Arab. of the Lond. Polyglot, and seems contrary to the true history. 4 Kennicott. 24:14. Kennicott, Diss. 2.

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