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OEB No OEB EZRA book available
WEBBE These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses and their offspring,[fn] whether they were of Israel:
WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)
NET These are the ones that came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify their family connection or their ancestry, as to whether they really were from Israel):
LSV And these [are] those going up from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsa, Cherub, Addan, Immer, and they have not been able to declare the house of their fathers, and their seed, whether they [are] of Israel:
FBV Those who came from the towns of Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer could not prove their family genealogy, or even that they were descendants of Israel.
T4T ¶ There was another group who returned to Judah from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer towns in Babylonia. But they could not prove that they were descendants of people who previously lived in Israel.
LEB Now these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their fathers’ household and their descent, if they were from Israel:
BBE And these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer. But having no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain that they were Israelites;
Moff No Moff EZRA book available
JPS And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not tell their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
ASV And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
DRA And these are they that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, and Adon, and Emer. And they could not shew the house of their fathers and their seed, whether they were of Israel.
YLT And these [are] those going up from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsa, Cherub, Addan, Immer, and they have not been able to declare the house of their fathers, and their seed, whether they [are] of Israel:
Drby And these are they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub-Addan, Immer; but they could not shew their fathers' house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
RV And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their fathers’ houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Wbstr And these were they who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not show their fathers' house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
KJB-1769 And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:[fn][fn]
(And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not show their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: )
KJB-1611 [fn]And these were they which went vp from Tel-melah, Tel-Harfa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shewe their fathers house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel.
(And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-Harfa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not show their fathers house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel.)
Bshps And these went vp from Thelmelah, and from Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they coulde not discerne their fathers house & their seede, whether they were of Israel.
(And these went up from Thelmelah, and from Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not discern their fathers house and their seed, whether they were of Israel.)
Gnva And these went vp from Telmelah, and from Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not discerne their fathers house and their seede, whether they were of Israel.
(And these went up from Telmelah, and from Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not discern their fathers house and their seed, whether they were of Israel. )
Cvdl And these wete vp also, Mithel, Melath, Thel, Harso, Cherub, Addon and Immer. But they coulde not shewe their fathers house ner their sede, whether they were of Israel.
(And these went up also, Mithel, Melath, Thel, Harso, Cherub, Addon and Immer. But they could not show their fathers house nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.)
Wycl And thei that stieden fro Thelmela, Thelersa, Cherub, and Don, and Mey, and myyten not schewe the hows of her fadris and her seed, whether thei weren of Israel;
(And they that stieden from Thelmela, Thelersa, Cherub, and Don, and Mey, and myyten not show the house of her fathers and her seed, whether they were of Israel;)
Luth Und diese zogen auch mit herauf: Mithel, Melah, Thel-Harsa, Cherub -Addon und Immer; aber sie konnten nicht anzeigen ihrer Väter Haus, noch ihren Samen, ob sie aus Israel wären.
(And this/these pulled also with herauf: Mithel, Melah, Thel-Harsa, Cherub -Addon and Immer; but they/she/them could not anzeigen of_their/her fathers house, still your Samen, ob they/she/them out_of Israel wären.)
ClVg Et hi qui ascenderunt de Thelmala, Thelharsa, Cherub, et Adon, et Emer: et non potuerunt indicare domum patrum suorum et semen suum, utrum ex Israël essent.
(And hi who ascenderunt about Thelmala, Thelharsa, Cherub, and Adon, and Emer: and not/no potuerunt indicare home patrum suorum and seed his_own, utrum from Israel essent. )
UTN uW Translation Notes:
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וְאֵ֗לֶּה הָֽעֹלִים֙
and=these the,came_up
As in 2:1, went up means traveled from Babylon back to Judah, since that involved going from a river valley up into the mountains. Alternate translation: “Some others returned to Judah”
Note 2 topic: translate-names
מִתֵּ֥ל מֶ֨לַח֙ תֵּ֣ל חַרְשָׁ֔א כְּר֥וּב אַדָּ֖ן אִמֵּ֑ר
from, מֶלַח תֵּל חַרְשָׁא Cherub Addan Immer
These are the names of five towns in Babylonia. Alternate translation: “who had been living in the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer”
וְלֹ֣א יָֽכְל֗וּ לְהַגִּ֤יד
and=not could to=announce
Alternate translation: “but they had no records to prove”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
בֵּית־אֲבוֹתָם֙ וְזַרְעָ֔ם אִ֥ם מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הֵֽם
house_of fathers',their and,descent,their if from,Israel they
All three of these phrases, the house of their fathers, their seed, and whether they were from Israel, mean very similar things. They are used together to give clarity and emphasis. The first phrase refers to a person being able to name a well-known ancestor. The second phrase refers to a person being able to list his ancestors going back to the one that is well-known. The third phrase summarizes the other two: if a person cannot name an ancestor or recite his ancestry, then he cannot claim to be from Israel. If there would be no distinction between these phrases in your language, you could combine them into one phrase. Alternate translations: “that their ancestors had been Israelites” or “what clan they were from or who their ancestors were, whether they were really Israelites”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
בֵּית־אֲבוֹתָם֙
house_of fathers',their
Among the Israelites, the expressions father’s house or house of their fathers originally described an extended-family group. It later came to be used more generally to refer to a larger clan within a tribe. In this expression, the word “house” describes all the people descended from a particular person. The term views all of those descendants as if they were one household living together. Alternate translation: “what clan they were from”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וְזַרְעָ֔ם
and,descent,their
Here, seed means “ancestors.” In the Bible, the term often describes a person’s descendants. But here, “their seed” means “whose seed they were,” so the term is describing the ancestors of these people. Alternate translation: “or who their ancestors were”
