The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
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The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
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Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
Ezra 2:33 counts 725 returnees from Lod, Hadid, and Ono. Nehemiah 7:37, transmitting the same returnee list, gives 721.
Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.
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