Ezra 2:63 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[Zerubbabel] the governor told them they should not eat of the most holy things [the priests' food] until there should be a priest with Urim and Thummim [who by consulting these articles in his breastplate could know God's will in the matter].

American Standard Version (1901)

And the governor said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

Common English Bible

The governor ordered them not to eat of the most holy food until a priest arose who could consult Urim and Thummim.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the cupbearer said to them that they should not eat from the Holy of Holies, until there would arise a priest, learned and perfect.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy of holies, till there arose a priest learned and perfect.

Ezra 2:63 Cross References

Ezra 2:64

The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

Nehemiah 10:1

Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah;

Nehemiah 10:2

Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah;

Nehemiah 7:65

And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah, which was the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Exodus 28:30

And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgement the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgement of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

Leviticus 2:10

And that which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

Leviticus 2:3

and that which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

Leviticus 22:10

There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

Leviticus 22:13

But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

Leviticus 6:17

It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the guilt offering.

Leviticus 6:29

Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.

Leviticus 7:16

But if the sacrifice of his oblation be a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow that which remaineth of it shall be eaten:

Leviticus 8:8

And he placed the breastplate upon him: and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.

Numbers 18:19

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

Numbers 18:32

And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best thereof: and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.

Numbers 27:21

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgement of the Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.

Deuteronomy 33:8

And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy godly one, Whom thou didst prove at Massah, With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

1 Samuel 28:6

And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.