Parallel Verses

Amplified

These searched [for their names] among those registered in the genealogies, but they were not found; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.

New American Standard Bible

These searched among their ancestral registration, but they could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.

International Standard Version

These people searched for their ancestral registrations but they couldn't be located. Accordingly, they were assigned an "unclean" status and couldn't be priests.

A Conservative Version

These sought their registration [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found. Therefore were they deemed polluted and put away from the priesthood.

American Standard Version

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.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

These sought their genealogical register, but they were not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood.

Julia Smith Translation

These sought their writing of those being enrolled, and they found not: and they will be polluted from the priesthood.

King James 2000

These sought their listing among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as defiled, excluded from the priesthood.

Lexham Expanded Bible

These sought their record in the genealogy [records], but they were not found, and {were excluded from the priesthood as unclean}.

Modern King James verseion

These looked for their register among those who were counted by genealogy, but they were not found. Therefore they were polluted from the priesthood.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

These sought the register of their birth, and found none, therefore were they put from the priesthood.

NET Bible

They searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but did not find them. They were therefore excluded from the priesthood.

New Heart English Bible

These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

The Emphasized Bible

These, sought their writing wherein they were registered, but they were not found, - so they were desecrated out of the priesthood;

Webster

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.

World English 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.

Youngs Literal Translation

these have sought their register among those reckoning themselves by genealogy, and they have not been found, and they are redeemed from the priesthood,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּתב 
Kathab 
Usage: 17

but they were not found
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

גּאל 
Ga'al 
Usage: 11

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

The List Of Returned Exiles

61 Of the sons of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, of Hakkoz, and of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was known by their name. 62 These searched [for their names] among those registered in the genealogies, but they were not found; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean. 63 The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things [the priests’ food] until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim [who by consulting these articles in his breastplate could determine God’s will in the matter].



Cross References

Numbers 3:10

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall observe and attend to their priesthood; but the layman (non-Levite) who approaches [the holy things] shall be put to death.”

Leviticus 21:21-23

No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a [physical] defect and is disfigured or deformed is to approach [the altar] to present the offerings of the Lord by fire. He has a defect; he shall not approach [the altar] to present the food of his God.

Numbers 16:39-40

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the Levites who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out [into broad sheets] as a plating for the [bronze] altar [of burnt offering],

Numbers 18:7

Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense] and [of the Holy of Holies] within the veil, and you are to serve. I am giving you the priesthood as a bestowed service, but the stranger (outsider, layman) who approaches shall be put to death.”

Ezekiel 44:10-14

But the Levites who went far away from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, they shall bear the punishment for their sin and guilt.

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