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The number given in Revelation 13:18 is not uniform across the tradition. The reading six hundred sixty-six is the familiar one; a reading of six hundred sixteen is also attested.
Genesis 6:19-20 instructs Noah to bring two of every sort of living thing. Genesis 7:2-3 instructs him to take clean beasts by sevens and unclean by twos, and fowls by sevens. The two instructions stand within a few verses of each other in
The two accounts of David’s census name different agents. 2 Samuel says the LORD, whose anger was kindled against Israel, moved David; 1 Chronicles says Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David. The passages agree that the census to
2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles both introduce the first-named member of David’s mighty men and both report a number of men killed with a spear on a single occasion. The figures differ: eight hundred in Samuel, three hundred in Chronicles. The pa
Kings and Chronicles both give Ahaziah’s age at accession and both give the same reign length of one year, but the ages differ by twenty years: twenty-two in 2 Kings, forty-two in 2 Chronicles. The forty-two figure would make Ahaziah older
Genesis 1 narrates the making of land animals followed by the creation of humanity, male and female. Genesis 2 narrates the forming of the man from the dust, and then the forming of every beast of the field and fowl of the air, brought to t
Kings gives Jehoiachin’s age at accession as eighteen and his reign as three months; Chronicles gives eight and three months and ten days. The reign lengths are close but not identical, and the ages differ by ten years.
Kings and Chronicles describe the same bronze basin in the temple with nearly identical wording, including the same handbreadth thickness and lily-work brim, but give different capacities: two thousand baths in Kings, three thousand in Chro
Kings reports forty thousand stalls of horses for Solomon’s chariots; Chronicles reports four thousand stalls for horses and chariots. Both give the same figure of twelve thousand horsemen.
1 Samuel narrates David killing the Philistine champion. 2 Samuel 21:19 reports that Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite — the King James Version supplies the words "the brother of" in italics, marking
Numbers reports twenty-four thousand dead in the plague. Paul, recalling the wilderness generation, writes that twenty-three thousand fell in one day. The figures differ by one thousand, and Paul adds the phrase "in one day".
Genesis says it repented the LORD that he had made man; 1 Samuel 15:11 has the LORD saying "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king". Numbers 23:19 and 1 Samuel 15:29 state that God is not a man that he should repent — and 15:29
The numbering of Israel narrated in 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21.
The plague reported in Numbers 25 and recalled in 1 Corinthians 10.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
The two sets of instructions given to Noah, compared on the numbers and categories of creatures.
The resurrection accounts, their differences in participants, timing and location, and the textual questions bearing on them.
An Egyptian instructional text organised in numbered chapters, addressed to a son and concerned with conduct, speech, honesty in trade, and the treatment of the poor.