Ezra 5:10

World English Bible (WEB)

We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.

In context

8 Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

9 Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”

10 We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.

11 Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

12 But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried the people away into Babylon.

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Ezra 5:10 in every translation

WEB World English Bible: We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.
KJV King James Version: We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.
ASV American Standard Version: We asked them their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: And also their names we have asked of them, to let thee know, that we might write the names of the men who [are] at their head.
DBY Darby Translation: We asked their names also, to inform thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
WBS Webster Bible: We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.