Nehemiah 7:64

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.

Cross References

Nehemiah 7:5

Then my God put it into my mind  to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it:

1 Chronicles 9:1

All Israel was registered in the genealogies that are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled  to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Leviticus 4:3

‘If the anointed priest  sins, bringing guilt  on the people, he is to present to the Lord a young, unblemished  bull as a sin  offering  for the sin he has committed.

Nehemiah 7:63

and from the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai #– #who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and who bore their name.

Nehemiah 7:65

The governor  ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.