Ezra 2:62 - Compare All Versions

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They had thoroughly searched for their family records but couldn’t find them. And so they were barred from priestly work as ritually unclean. The governor ruled that they could not eat from the holy food until a priest could determine their status with the Urim and Thummim.

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.

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

These people searched for their family records but could not find them. So they could not be priests, because they were thought to be unclean.

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.

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

These sought their listing among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore they were excluded from the priesthood as defiled.

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.

They searched for their names in the genealogical records, but they were not found, so they were disqualified from serving as priests.

These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.