Discovery BoxEzra 1:11 
Context1:11 All these gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400. 1 Sheshbazzar brought them all along when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Ezra 4:21
Context4:21 Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct. 2
Ezra 5:15
Context5:15 He said to him, “Take these vessels and go deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt in its proper location.” 3
Ezra 8:1
Context8:1 These are the leaders 4 and those enrolled with them by genealogy who were coming up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
Ezra 10:11
Context10:11 Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents 5 and from these foreign wives.”
1 sn The total number as given in the MT does not match the numbers given for the various items in v. 9. It is not clear whether the difference is due to error in textual transmission or whether the constituent items mentioned are only a selection from a longer list, in which case the total from that longer list may have been retained. The numbers provided in 1 Esdras come much closer to agreeing with the number in Ezra 1:9-11, but this does not necessarily mean that 1 Esdras has been better preserved here than Ezra. 1 Esdras 2:13-15 (RSV) says, “The number of these was: a thousand gold cups, a thousand silver cups, twenty-nine silver censures, thirty gold bowls, two thousand four hundred and ten silver bowls, and a thousand other vessels. All the vessels were handed over, gold and silver, five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine, and they were carried back by Shesbazzar with the returning exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem.”
2 tn Aram “until a command is issued from me.”
3 tn Aram “upon its place.”
4 tn Heb “the heads of their families.”
5 tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”
