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Ezra 2.1
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Ezra 2.1

Book: Ezra · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

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ASV

1. Now these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

  1. who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 3. The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two. (Ezra 2:1-3, ASV)
WEB

1. Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;

  1. who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 3. The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. (Ezra 2:1-3, WEB)
KJV

1. Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

  1. Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: Seraiah: also called, Azariah, nehe.7.7. 3. The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two. (Ezra 2:1-3, KJV)
YLT

1. And these [are] sons of the province who are going up, of the captives of the removal that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed to Babylon, and they turn back to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city

  1. who have come in with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah: The number of the men of the people of Israel: 3. Sons of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two. (Ezra 2:1-3, YLT)

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Setting

  • Speaker: the narrator of Ezra, introducing the register of returnees
  • Audience: the restored community in Judah, whose families are listed
  • Location: from Babylon to "Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city"
  • Time period: the first return under Zerubbabel, from c. 538 BC

Theological reading

The list counts "the children of the province" (Ezra 2:1), that is, Judah as a province of the Persian empire, no longer a kingdom. The people are defined by where they came from, "the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away," and by where they went: each "unto his city."

Returning to ancestral towns ties the people back to the land as inheritance, not merely as a place to live. The register is important enough that Nehemiah 7 reproduces it nearly word for word (Nehemiah 7:6 repeats this verse), and it becomes the basis for testing claims of descent later in the chapter (Ezra 2:59-63).

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

  • ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
  • WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
  • KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
  • YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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