“And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.”
A category of people with uncertain genealogy is introduced: "The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer, though they could not prove their ancestral houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel..." The notation that some returnees could not definitively prove genealogy indicates that documentation had been lost or damaged during exile, or that displacement had disrupted genealogical knowledge. The return of these people despite genealogical uncertainty suggests that community acceptance and other validation methods could substitute for complete documentation.
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