Ezra 2:62 These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

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Parallel Verses

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

English Standard Version
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.

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 Bible
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 Christian Standard 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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not, and they were cast out of the priesthood.

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

Young's 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,

Cross References

Numbers 16:39
And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, with which they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:

Numbers 16:40
To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:36-63 Those who undervalue their relation to the Lord in times of reproach, persecution, or distress, will have no benefit from it when it becomes honourable or profitable. Those who have no evidence that they are, by the new birth, spiritual priests unto God, through Jesus Christ, have no right to the comforts and privileges of Christians.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

61, 62. the children of Barzillai—He preferred that name to that of his own family, deeming it a greater distinction to be connected with so noble a family, than to be of the house of Levi. But by this worldly ambition he forfeited the dignity and advantages of the priesthood.