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OET (OET-RV) And from these towns: • 123 from Bethlehem,
OET-LV the_descendants house_of wwww one_hundred twenty and_three.
UHB בְּנֵ֣י בֵֽית־לָ֔חֶם מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס ‡
(bənēy ⱱēyt-lāḩem mēʼāh ˊesrim ūshəloshāh.ş)
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Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXX Υἱοὶ Βεθλαὲμ, ἑκατὸν εἰκοσιτρεῖς.
(Huioi Bethlaem, hekaton eikositreis. )
BrTr The children of Bethlaem, a hundred and twenty-three.
ULT The sons of Bethlehem were 123.
UST The following is a list of people whose ancestors had lived in these towns in Judah:
¶ 123 from Bethlehem,
BSB • the men [fn] of Bethlehem, 123;
2:21 Literally the sons; here and in verses 25, 26, 33, and 34
OEB No OEB EZRA book available
WEBBE The children of Bethlehem, one hundred and twenty-three.
WMBB (Same as above)
NET The men of Bethlehem: 123;
LSV sons of Beth-Lehem, one hundred twenty-three;
FBV the people from Bethlehem, 123;
T4T 123
LEB the people[fn] of Bethlehem, one hundred and twenty-three;
2:21 Or “sons”
BBE The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred and twenty-three.
Moff No Moff EZRA book available
JPS The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.
ASV The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.
DRA The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three.
YLT Sons of Beth-Lehem, a hundred twenty and three.
Drby The children of Bethlehem, a hundred and twenty-three.
RV The children of Beth-lehem, an hundred twenty and three.
Wbstr The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.
KJB-1769 The children of Beth-lehem, an hundred twenty and three.
KJB-1611 The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twentie and three.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
Bshps The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twentie and three.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
Gnva The sonnes of Beth-lehem, an hundreth and three and twentie:
(The sons of Beth-lehem, an hundreth and three and twentie: )
Cvdl the children off Bethleem, an hundreth and thre and twentye:
(the children off Bethlehem, an hundreth and three and twentye:)
Wycl the sones of Bethleem weren an hundrid and eiyte and twenti;
(the sons of Bethlehem were an hundred and eight and twenti;)
Luth der Kinder Beth-Lehem hundert und dreiundzwanzig;
(der children Beth-Lehem hundred and threeundzwanzig;)
ClVg Filii Bethlehem, centum viginti tres.
(Children Bethlehem, hundred twenty tres. )
2:1-70 This chapter is the first of Ezra’s major digressions from the main story line. The returning exiles needed to keep track of who the true Jews were so that the community could maintain its identity (by knowing whom they could marry) and theological purity (by knowing who could worship at the Temple). This list is not an initial list (cp. Neh 7:6-73) of all the Jews who returned to Jerusalem but a slightly later list (after Sheshbazzar had died) of people who had settled in their towns.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
בְּנֵ֣י בֵֽית־לָ֔חֶם מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה
sons_of house_of לָחֶם hundred twenty and,three
The list speaks here of the sons of Bethlehem. This is an idiom that means that these men were from families that had originally lived in that town. Alternate translation: “From the town of Bethlehem, 123 returned”
Note 2 topic: translate-names
בֵֽית־לָ֔חֶם
house_of לָחֶם
Bethlehem is the name of a town.
The Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, where all Israelite males were commanded to offer sacrifices to the Lord (Exodus 23:14-19; Deuteronomy 16:16-17), underwent several stages of reconstruction and development over hundreds of years. The first Temple was built by King Solomon to replace the aging Tabernacle, and it was constructed on a threshing floor on high ground on the north side of the city (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). Hundreds of years later King Hezekiah expanded the platform surrounding the Temple. When Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C., the Temple was completely destroyed (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). It was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after a group of Jews returned to Judea from exile in Babylon (Ezra 1:5-6:15; Nehemiah 7:5-65). Herod the Great completely rebuilt and expanded the Temple once again around 20 B.C., making it one of the largest temples in the Roman world. Jesus’ first believers often met together in Solomon’s Colonnade, a columned porch that encircled the Temple Mount, perhaps carrying on a tradition started by Jesus himself (John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12). But Herod’s Temple did not last long: After many Jews revolted against Rome, the Romans eventually recaptured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in A.D. 70.