Nehemiah 7:64 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶⁴ These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶⁴ These sought their registration among those recorded in the genealogies, but it was not found; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶⁴ These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

Common English Bible

⁶⁴ looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they weren’t found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶⁴ These sought their writing in the census, and they did not find it, and so they were cast out of the priesthood.

Nehemiah 7:64 Cross References

Nehemiah 7:5

Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who were the first to come back, and I found the following written in it:

1 Chronicles 9:1

So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priests and the Levites.

Leviticus 4:3

“If it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull of the herd as a purification offering to the Lord.

Nehemiah 7:63

Also, of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, of Hakkoz, of Barzillai (who had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).

Nehemiah 7:65

the governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should come.