Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
These searched among their ancestral registration, but they could not be located;
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.
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.
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 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,
Themes
Babylon » Restoration of the jews from
Christian ministers » Instances of » Priests and levites
Genealogies » Priests who could not prove their own, excluded from the priesthood
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezra 2:62
Verse Info
Context Readings
The List Of Returned Exiles
61 And of the sons of the priests, the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of Barzillai (who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name). 62 These looked for their register among those who were counted by genealogy, but they were not found. Therefore they were polluted from the priesthood. 63 And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
Phrases
Cross References
Numbers 3:10
And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
Leviticus 21:21-23
No man of the seed of Aaron, the priest, in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the fire offerings of Jehovah. He has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
Numbers 16:39-40
And Eleazar the priest took the bronze fire-pans, the ones with which those who had been burned up had offered, and they were made into broad plates, a covering of the altar,
Numbers 18:7
Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priests' office for everything of the altar and inside the veil. And you shall serve. I have given your priest's office as a service of gift. And the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.
Ezekiel 44:10-14
But the Levites who have gone far away from Me, when Israel went astray; those who went astray from Me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.