OLD TESTAMENT

Nehemiah 7:69

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69

their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.

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Verse 69. Hitherto. This is not in the original, or in the other versions. It is inserted in the margin of some Lat. MSS. and entirely omitted in others of great authority. The gloss might have been placed after verse 64. Calmet.—Yet some of the following verses seem also to be copied from 1 Esdras. Bible.—S. Jerom informs us from what sources the work was compiled, which is all declared canonical by the Church, ( Worthington.) whether written by Esdras or by Nehemias. Bible.

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