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     * forty.
       Though the sum total, both here and in Nehemiah, is equal,
       namely, 42,360, yet the particulars reckoned up only make
       29,818; in Ezra, and 31,089; in Nehemiah; and we find that
       Nehemiah mentions 1,765; persons who are not in Ezra, and Ezra
       has 494; not mentioned in Nehemiah.  This last circumstance,
       which seems to render all hope of reconciling them impossible,
       Mr. Alting thinks is the very point by which they can be
       reconciled; for, if we add Ezra's surplus to the sum in
       Nehemiah, and Nehemiah's surplus to the number in Ezra, they
       will both amount to 31,583; which subtracted from 42,360,
       leaves a deficiency of 10,777, which are not named because
       they did not belong to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, or to
       the priests, but to the other Israelitish tribes.

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