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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 therefore there are any of you that are of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel. He is the Lord who dwells in Jerusalem. 6 Therefore, of those who dwell in various places, let those who are in his own place each help with gold, with silver, 7 with gifts, with horses, and cattle, besides the other things which have been added by vow for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. 8 Then the chief of the families of Judah and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up, with the priests, the Levites, and all whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up, to build the house for the Lord which is in Jerusalem.
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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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