Ezra 2:62 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶² These looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they were not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶² These sought their names among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶² 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.

Common English Bible

⁶² They looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they were not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶² These sought the writing of their genealogy, and they did not find it, and so they were cast out of the priesthood.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶² These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood.

Ezra 2:62 Cross References

Numbers 17:5

And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will put a stop to the complaints of the Israelites that they continually make against you.”

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons with you shall diligently perform your priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and the area behind the curtain. I give your priesthood as a gift; any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.”

Numbers 3:10

But you shall enroll Aaron and his descendants; it is they who shall attend to the priesthood, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”