Nehemiah 7:64 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶⁴ These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood.

Nehemiah 7:64 Cross References

1 Chronicles 9:1

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgression.

Nehemiah 13:29

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

Nehemiah 7:5

And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and I found written therein:

Nehemiah 7:63

And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

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.

Leviticus 4:3

if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people; then let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.