Ezra 2:59

2:59 These are the ones that came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify 1  their family connection 2  or their ancestry, 3  as to whether they really were from Israel):

Ezra 2:68

2:68 When they came to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders 4  offered voluntary offerings for the temple of God in order to rebuild 5  it on its site.

Ezra 8:29

8:29 Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, 6  in the storerooms of the temple of the Lord.”

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out 7  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. 8  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

1 tn Heb “relate.”

2 tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

3 tn Heb “their seed.”

4 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

5 tn Heb “cause it to stand.”

6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

7 tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadÿlu, “were separated”) of the MT.

8 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”