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Literal Standard Version

Nehemiah 7:12

sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elam;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Elam;   Ezra, the Book of;   Hananiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acud;   Ammidioi;   Elam;   Ezra, Book of;   Hagab;   Kilan;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elam ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - E'lam;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elam;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Ezra, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Elam’s descendants 1,254
Hebrew Names Version
The children of `Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
King James Version
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
English Standard Version
The sons of Elam, 1,254.
New Century Version
the descendants of Elam—1,254;
New English Translation
the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
Amplified Bible
the sons of Elam, 1,254;
New American Standard Bible
the sons of Elam, 1,254;
World English Bible
The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sonnes of Elam, a thousand, two hundreth fiftie and foure.
Legacy Standard Bible
the sons of Elam, 1,254;
Berean Standard Bible
the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
Easy-to-Read Version
the descendants of Elam 1254
George Lamsa Translation
The descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
Good News Translation
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Lexham English Bible
The descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
Literal Translation
The sons of Elam were a thousand, two hundred and fifty four.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the childron of Elam, a thousande, two hundreth, and foure and fyftye:
American Standard Version
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Bible in Basic English
The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fiftie and foure.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
King James Version (1611)
The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred, fiftie and foure.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The children of Ælam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
English Revised Version
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the sones of Helam, a thousynde eiyte hundrid and foure and fifti;
Update Bible Version
The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Webster's Bible Translation
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty four.
New King James Version
the sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;
New Living Translation
The family of Elam 1,254
New Life Bible
1,254 sons of Elam,
New Revised Standard
Of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sons of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Elam: a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the sons of Elam, 1,254;

Contextual Overview

5and my God puts it to my heart, and I gather the nobles, and the prefects, and the people, for the genealogy, and I find a scroll of the genealogy of those coming up at the beginning, and I find written in it: 6These [are] sons of the province, those coming up of the captives of the expulsion that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed—and they return to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his city— 7who are coming in with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 8sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; 9sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two; 10sons of Arah, six hundred fifty-two; 11sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred [and] eighteen; 12sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four;13sons of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five; 14sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Elam: Ezra 2:7, Ezra 8:7, Ezra 10:26

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 7:34 - the other Elam

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
for after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground."
Genesis 7:17
And the flood is on the earth [for] forty days, and the waters multiply and lift up the Ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;
Exodus 24:18
and Moses goes into the midst of the cloud, and goes up to the mountain, and Moses is on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
In my going up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone (tablets of the covenant which YHWH has made with you), then I abide on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I have not eaten bread and I have not drunk water;
Deuteronomy 9:18
and I throw myself before YHWH, as at first, [for] forty days and forty nights; I have not eaten bread and I have not drunk water, because of all your sins which you have sinned by doing evil in the eyes of YHWH, to make Him angry.
Deuteronomy 10:10
And I have stood in the mountain, as the former days, [for] forty days and forty nights, and YHWH also listens to me at that time; YHWH has not willed to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
and he rises, and eats, and drinks, and goes in the power of that food [for] forty days and forty nights, to the mountain of God—Horeb.
Matthew 4:2
and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He hungered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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