1 Esdræ 7:4

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Cumque eis per familias et populos suos, accincti ad prælium, viri fortissimi, triginta sex millia: multas enim habuerunt uxores, et filios.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Sive ingredi voluerimus civitatem, fame moriemur : sive manserimus hic, moriendum nobis est : venite ergo, et transfugiamus ad castra Syriæ : si pepercerint nobis, vivemus : si autem occidere voluerint, nihilominus moriemur.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Cumque eis erant secundum genealogias familiarum suarum turmae accinctae ad proelium, viri fortissimi, triginta sex milia; multas enim habuere uxores et filios.

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1 Chronicles 12:32

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 7:2 - whose number

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war,.... Companies of men of military courage and skill, who could and did go out to war upon occasion:

six and thirty thousand [men]; besides the 22,600 Tolaites, 1 Chronicles 7:2,

for they had many wives and sons; having many wives, they had many sons; polygamy was the cause of their large numbers; and that they gave into for the sake of the multiplication of Abraham's seed, according to the divine promise.