Ezra 2:62
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.
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Gill's Exposition
Besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven,.... This shows that the greater part of those that returned were of the poorer sort, since…
Here is an account, I. Of the priests that returned, and they were a considerable number, about a tenth part of the whole company: for the whole were above 42,000 (Ezr 2:64), and four families of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
these sought their register&c. Literally -These sought their writing (LXX. γραφὴν αὐτῶν), the enrolled", i.e. they searched for their genealogy in the priestly book, which went by the name of -The…
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