Ezra 2:50-60

50 The Bnei Asnah, the Bnei Meunim, the Bnei Nephusim,

51 The Bnei Bakbuk, the Bnei Chakupha, the Bnei Chachur,

52 The Bnei Batzlut, the Bnei Mechida, the Bnei Charsha,

53 The Bnei Barkos, the Bnei Sisra, the Bnei Temach,

54 The Bnei Netziach, the Bnei Chatipha.

55 The Bnei Avdei Sh’lomo; the Bnei Sotai, the Bnei Hasopheret, the Bnei Peruda,

56 The Bnei Ya’alah, the Bnei Darkon, the Bnei Giddel,

57 The Bnei Shephatyah, the Bnei Chattil, the Bnei Pocheret-Hatzvayim, the Bnei Ami.

58 All the Netinim, and the Bnei Avdei Sh’lomo, were three hundred ninety and two.

59 And these were they which went up from Telmelach, Telcharsa, Keruv, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their Bais Avot, and their zera, whether they were of Yisroel;

60 The Bnei Delaiah, the Bnei Toviyah, the Bnei Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

Ezra 2:50-60 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 2

This chapter contains a list of those that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem, of their leaders, their chief men, princes and priests, Ezr 2:1,2 of the people, described by their families, towns, and cities, and number of persons, Ezr 2:3-35, of the priests, Levites, and Nethinims, Ezr 2:36-58, and of those that could not make out their genealogy, people and priests, Ezr 2:59-63, and then the sum total of the whole congregation is given, Ezr 2:64, besides men and maidservants, singing men and women, and cattle of divers sorts, Ezr 2:65-67, and the chapter is closed with an account of the freewill offerings of the principal men towards the building of the temple, and of the settlement of the people in their respective cities, Ezr 2:68-70.