Ezra 2:62
“These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogie, but they were not found: therefore were they as polluted, put from the priesthood.”
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Ezra 2:62 Context
60The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: sixe hundred fiftie and two. 61¶ And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, (which tooke a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.) 62These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogie, but they were not found: therefore were they as polluted, put from the priesthood. 63And the Tirshatha said vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy things, till there stood vp a priest with Urim & with Thummim. 64¶ The whole Congregation together, was fourtie and two thousand, three hundred and threescore:
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Other Translations for Ezra 2:62
These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- King James Version
These searched {among} their ancestral registration, but they could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean {and excluded} from the priesthood.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
These sought their register `among' those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
- American Standard Version (1901)
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen; so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
- Basic English Bible
These sought their genealogical register, but they were not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood.
- Darby Bible
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- Webster's Bible
These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
- World English Bible
these have sought their register among those reckoning themselves by genealogy, and they have not been found, and they are redeemed from the priesthood,
- Youngs Literal Bible
These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Ezra 2:62
2:62 Genealogy - The Jews were generally very exact in their genealogies from their own choice and interest, that they might preserve the distinctions of the several tribes and families, which was necessary both to make out their titles to offices or inheritances, and to govern themselves thereby in the matter of marriages, and from the special providence of God, that so it might be certainly known of what tribe and family the Messiah was born.