Nehemiah, in like manner, gives a list of the returned families, and of the number of each family. He begins as in Ezra, by saying (7:8):
Nehemiah 7:8
The children of Parosh, two thousand three hundred and seventy-two;
and so on through all the families. (The list differs in several of the particulars from that of Ezra.) In ver. 66, Nehemiah makes a total, and says, as Ezra had said,
Nehemiah 7:66
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore.
But the particulars of this list make a total but of 31,089, so that the error here is 11,271. These writers may do well enough for Bible-makers, but not for any thing where truth and exactness is necessary.