How do your read Esther 9:16?

[peterlindner]

How do you read "seventy and five thousand"? What is your rule, standard, or precedent? I read it as 70 and 5,000 for a total of 5,070. When combined with the earlier numbers in Esther 9 I find some amazing mana.

1st day killed 500+10
2nd day "the same" for 500 (can't kill the 10 twice)
300 killed not decreed by the king.

5,070+510+500-300=5,780. We are at Purim in year 5,780
5,070-510-500-300=3,760. Year of Christ or 2,020 years less than 5,780.

 

[DavidPT]

How do you read "seventy and five thousand"? What is your rule, standard, or precedent? I read it as 70 and 5,000 for a total of 5,070. When combined with the earlier numbers in Esther 9 I find some amazing mana.

1st day killed 500+10
2nd day "the same" for 500 (can't kill the 10 twice)
300 killed not decreed by the king.

5,070+510+500-300=5,780. We are at Purim in year 5,780
5,070-510-500-300=3,760. Year of Christ or 2,020 years less than 5,780.

Numbers 1:25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

How would it be understood in a verse like this one? Would it not be 45,650? I wouldn't think it would be 5,650 + 40 instead.

In like manner, in Esther 9:16 would it not be 75,000?