Passage

Ezra 2.3

Book: Ezra · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV

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; 2. 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.

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. 5. The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five. (Ezra 2:1-5, ASV)

WEB

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; 2. 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.

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. 5. The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five. (Ezra 2:1-5, WEB)

KJV

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; 2. 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.

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. 5. The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five. (Ezra 2:1-5, KJV)

YLT

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 2. 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.

Sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. 5. Sons of Arah, seven hundred five and seventy. (Ezra 2:1-5, YLT)

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Setting

Speaker: the narrator of Ezra
Audience: the restored community in Judah
Location: from Babylon to Jerusalem and Judah
Time period: the first return, from c. 538 BC

Theological reading

The lay families of the register begin here: "The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two." The entry is one line, but the family recurs through the later history, which shows the list naming real, continuing households. Men "of the sons of Parosh" came with Ezra decades later (Ezra 8:3); some of its sons are listed among those who had married foreign wives (Ezra 10:25); "Pedaiah the son of Parosh" repaired a section of the wall under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 3:25); and Parosh heads "the chiefs of the people" who sealed the covenant (Nehemiah 10:14).

Taken together with Ezra 2:1, the verse shows the restoration organized by fathers' houses. Israel's identity after the exile rests on genealogy and family, which is why the chapter later excludes those who "could not show their fathers' houses" from full standing (Ezra 2:59-63).

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word.

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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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