Ezra 2:30

Study note

Setting — The narrator records a census of returning exiles, listing the Magbish clan immediately after the descendants of Nebo (Ezra 2:29) and before the descendants of Elam (Ezra 2:31).

The words — בְּנֵ֣י (benei) literally means the descendants or sons of a lineage, and מַגְבִּ֔ישׁ (Magbish) names the specific family group being counted.

The thread — The text situates this entry within the continuous Ezra 2:29–31 census list, grouping Magbish with neighboring clans without supplying additional scriptural cross-references.

Why it lands — The reader must accept the text's exact numerical accounting of each returning family, noting that the passage demands recognition of the documented order and specific headcount of the post-exilic restoration.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.