Ezra Chapter 8 verse 1 Holy Bible
Now these are the heads of their fathers' `houses', and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
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Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.
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And these are the chief fathers, and their genealogy, who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
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These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
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These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
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Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
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And these `are' heads of their fathers, and the genealogy of those going up with me, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king, from Babylon.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - On the expression chief of the fathers see comment on ch. 2:68.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersVIII.(1-14) A list of the chief names, given by families, of those who accompanied Ezra.(1) This is the genealogy.--The names of the heads of houses is followed generally by that of the wider families they belonged to. With this list is to be compared the register of those who went up with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2 seq.).