In verse 11, the total number of items listed in the previous two verses is said to be 5400. The actual total is 2499. 1:9-11

God's magical Urim and Thummim 2:63

"The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand tree hundred and threescore [42,360]." Yet if we count up all of the numbers in the list just given in Ezra 2:3-62 we obtain a different number: 29,818. 2:65

When Ezra hears of the intermarriages, he tears up his clothes, plucks out his hair and beard, and sits down astonished. 9:3