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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.
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.
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 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,
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
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Context Readings
The List Of Returned Exiles
61 Descendants of the Priests: Descendants of Habaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai, who married one of the daughters of Barzillai from Gilead and took that name. 62 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. 63 Governor Zerubbabel also ruled that they shouldn't eat anything holy until a priest arose with Urim and Thummim.
Phrases
Cross References
Numbers 3:10
Appoint Aaron and his sons so that they are to take responsibility for their priesthood. Any unauthorized person who approaches it is to be put to death."
Leviticus 21:21-23
None of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to approach to bring offerings of the LORD made by fire, since he has a defect. He is not to approach to offer the food of his God.
Numbers 16:39-40
So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that had been burned and beat them into metal plates for the altar,
Numbers 18:7
Now you and your sons with you are to maintain your priestly duties and all matters that concern the altar and what is housed within the veil. You are to perform these services. I'm giving you the priesthood as a gift of service, but any unauthorized person who approaches is to be put to death."
Ezekiel 44:10-14
But the descendants of Levi, who went far away from me when Israel abandoned me, who left me to follow their idols, are to bear the punishment of their iniquity.