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In Ezra, Cyrus orders the neighbors of the returning exiles to help them with silver, gold, equipment, and animals. 1 Esdras has horses in that list, likely reading a Hebrew word for horses where Ezra has a similar word for property.
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1000+ CE
Ezra 1:4
Hebrew Bible
4 Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.’” 5 Then the leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites—all those whose mind God had stirred—got ready to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. 6 All their neighbors assisted them with silver utensils, gold, equipment, animals, and expensive gifts, not to mention all the voluntary offerings.
1 Esdras 2:7
Esdras A, 3 Esdras
Deuterocanon
5 If any one of you, therefore, is of his people, may his Lord be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel—he is the Lord who dwells in Jerusalem, 6 and let each man, wherever he may live, be helped by the men of his place with gold and silver, 7 with gifts and with horses and cattle, besides the other things added as votive offerings for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.” 8 Then arose the heads of families of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, and all whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up to build the house in Jerusalem for the Lord;
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Notes and References
“... 1 Esdras 2:1–14 closely parallels Ezra 1, while 1 Esdras 2:15–25 is roughly paralleled by Ezra 4:7–24. Where Ezra 1:2 has “Yhwh God of heaven,” 1 Esdras 2:3 has “the lord of Israel, the Lord most high.” 1 Esdras seems to have a preference for “lord” (kurios) where Ezra and Esdras β have “God.” It has “horse” (probably from Hebrew rekeš) where Ezra has “property” (rĕkûš) (1 Esdras 2:6, 8//Ezra 1:4, 6). Although the total number of temple vessels delivered to Sanabassaros (5469 [2:12–13]) is roughly the same as given to Sheshbazzar in Ezra 1:9–11 (5400), the numbers of the individual types are often quite different. ...”
Grabbe, Lester L.
"1 Esdras (Greek Ezra)" in Oegema, Gerbern S. (ed.) 1 Esdras (Greek Ezra), in The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha
(p. 108) Oxford University Press, 2021
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