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Nehemiah 7:64
Nehemiah 7:64 is verse 64 of Nehemiah chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
King James Version
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
World English Bible
These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
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Nehemiah 7:62–66 · Berean Standard Bible
62 the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 642 in all.
63 And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).
64 These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
65 The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
66 The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
Matthew 22:12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
Matthew 22:13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Nehemiah 7:5Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
1 Chronicles 9:1So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
Matthew 25:11Later the other virgins arrived and said, ‘Lord, lord, open the door for us!’
Matthew 25:12But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’
Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
Leviticus 4:3If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.