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HOW MANY SILVER AND GOLD ITEMS WERE IN CYRUS' VESSELS?
Ezra 1:7-11 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

Note: The assumption of contradiction is that 30+1000+29+30+410+1000 equals 2499, not 5400 as the passage claims.

However, it says that ALL of the vessels totalled 5400, but it does not say that the previous lists included all of the vessels.  Some vessels were not listed separately, but were included in the total.  Not a contradiction.

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