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Young's Literal Translation

Nehemiah 7:12

Sons of Elam: a thousand two hundred fifty and 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the sons of Elam, 1,254;

Contextual Overview

5 and my God putteth it unto my heart, and I gather the freeman, and the prefects, and the people, for the genealogy, and I find a book of the genealogy of those coming up at the beginning, and I find written in it: -- 6 These [are] sons of the province, those coming up of the captives of the removal that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed -- and they turn back to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his city -- 7 who are coming in with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. Number of the men of the people of Israel: 8 Sons of Parosh: two thousand a hundred and seventy and two. 9 Sons of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy and two. 10 Sons of Arah: six hundred fifty and two. 11 Sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand and eight hundred [and] eighteen. 12 Sons of Elam: a thousand two hundred fifty and four. 13 Sons of Zattu: eight hundred forty and five. 14 Sons 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 other seven days I am sending rain on the earth 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 deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;
Exodus 24:18
and Moses goeth into the midst of the cloud, and goeth up unto the mount, and Moses is on the mount forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
`In my going up into the mount to receive the tables of stone (tables of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you), and I abide in the mount forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk;
Deuteronomy 9:18
and I throw myself before Jehovah, as at first, forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned, by doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry.
Deuteronomy 10:10
`And I -- I have stood in the mount, as the former days, forty days and forty nights, and Jehovah hearkeneth unto me also at that time; Jehovah hath not willed to destroy thee.
1 Kings 19:8
and he riseth, and eateth, and drinketh, and goeth in the power of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God -- Horeb.
Matthew 4:2
and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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