2:59a The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer,

¶ The following men came from ⌊the towns of⌋ Tel-melah, Tel-marsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, ⌊which were in Babylon⌋
-or-
¶ ⌊This is the list and/with the number of the men who⌋ departed from the towns ⌊the towns in Babylon⌋ ⌊called⌋ Tel-melah and Tel-harsha and Cherub and Addan and Immer.

2:59b but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

but they could not declare that their clans belonged to Israel:
-or-
These people could not prove ⌊with records of descent/ancestry⌋ that they were ⌊true⌋ men of Israel.

© 2020 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.