Discovery BoxEzra 2:59 
Context2:59 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
Context2:68 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
Context8:29 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
Context10:16 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.”
