Harim not to be confounded with the Harim of Ezra 2:39. The family name mentioned in this verse occurs again in chap. Ezra 10:31.

The three Ezra 2:30-32 call for special remark. (a) Magbish does not occur in the parallel lists: (b) -Elam" and -Harim" are names of people not of towns: (c) the list in 1Es 5:21-22 passes at once from Nephis (Nebo) to Calamolus (Lod, Hadid and Ono): (d) the name of -Harim" apparently is inserted as -Arom" in 1Es 5:16, with 32 instead of 320 persons.

We have here the traces of an early confusion in the text. It is not improbable that Ezra 2:31 is an accidental repetition of Ezra 2:7 and that Ezra 2:32 has been detached from its place in the first portion of the register (3 19).

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