Ezra 2:62

KJV1611 – Modern English

These sought their record among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore, as polluted, they were put from the priesthood.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    These sought{H1245} their register{H3791} [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy,{H3187} but they were not found:{H4672} therefore were they deemed polluted{H1351} and put from the priesthood.{H3550}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    These sought{H1245}{(H8765)} their register{H3791} among those that were reckoned by genealogy{H3187}{(H8693)}, but they were not found{H4672}{(H8738)}: therefore were they, as polluted{H1351}{(H8792)}, put from the priesthood{H3550}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    these soughte the register of their byrth, and founde none, therfore were they put from the presthode.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    These sought their writing of the genealogies, but they were not founde: therefore were they put from the Priesthood.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    These sought their euidence among them that had the regester of birth, and were not founde therein, therefore were they put from the priesthood.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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 (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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)

    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 (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

  • Num 3:10 : 10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall fulfill their duties in the priest's office; and the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
  • Num 16:39-40 : 39 And Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, with which they that were burned had offered; and they were made into broad plates for a covering of the altar. 40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no outsider, who is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he not be like Korah, and like his company: as the LORD said to him through Moses.
  • Num 18:7 : 7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the veil; and you shall serve: I have given your priest's office to you as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
  • Ezek 44:10-14 : 10 And the Levites who went far away from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me after their idols; they shall bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they shall not come near to me, to perform the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. 14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • Lev 21:21-23 : 21 No man who has a blemish of the descendants of Aaron the priest shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    61 And these were the ones who also went up from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house nor their descent, whether they were of Israel.

    62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.

    63 And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name.

    64 These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore they were, as polluted, expelled from the priesthood.

    65 And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim.

  • Ezra 2:63
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    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.

  • Ezra 2:59-61
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    59 And these were those who went up from Telmelah, Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

    60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.

    61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name:

  • Neh 13:29-30
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    74%

    29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

    30 Thus I cleansed them of everything foreign, and I assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his service,

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    22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers, as well as the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.

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    70%

    47 But the Levites, by their fathers' tribe, were not numbered among them.

  • Ezra 10:18
    70%

    18 Among the sons of the priests who had taken foreign wives were found among the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

  • Ezra 9:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

    2 For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has mingled with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

  • 1 Chr 9:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 All of Israel was recorded by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were taken to Babylon for their transgression.

    2 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

  • 2 Chr 31:17-19
    3 verses
    69%

    17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers and the Levites from twenty years old and upward in their charges by their divisions;

    18 And to the genealogy of their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation, for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

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    69%

    15 They cried to them, 'Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch!' When they fled and wandered, they said among the nations, 'They shall no longer dwell there.'

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  • 2 Chr 30:3
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    3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    69%

    9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    68%

    34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore, their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was done, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • Neh 7:5
    68%

    5 And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up at the first and found written in it,

  • Num 2:33
    68%

    33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • 1 Chr 9:10
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    10 And of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jachin.

  • Ezra 8:15
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    15 And I gathered them together by the river that flows to Ahava; and there we stayed in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

  • 2 Chr 29:16
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    16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

  • Neh 12:26
    68%

    26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

  • 1 Chr 24:6
    67%

    6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them down before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chiefs of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar.

  • Neh 12:10
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    10 And Jeshua fathered Joiakim, Joiakim also fathered Eliashib, and Eliashib fathered Joiada,

  • Heb 7:13
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    13 For he of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, of which no man attended the altar.

  • Neh 12:1-2
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    1 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

    2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

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    9 Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.

  • Ezra 2:3
    67%

    3 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

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    7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

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    30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

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    37 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.

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    10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.

  • 2 Kgs 12:16
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    16 The guilt money and sin money were not brought into the house of the LORD; it was the priests’.

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    13 And they shall not come near to me, to perform the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

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    24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,