Nehemiah 7:64

English Standard Version 2016

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.

Cross References

Nehemiah 7:5

Then my God put it into my heart 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 came up at the first, and I found written in it:

1 Chronicles 9:1

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

Nehemiah 13:29

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

Leviticus 4:3

if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering.

Nehemiah 7:63

Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife 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 arise.