Nehemiah 7:64

New American Bible - revised edition

These men searched their family records, but their names could not be found written there; hence they were disqualified from the priesthood,

Cross References

1 Chronicles 9:1

Thus all Israel was listed in family lists, and these are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. Now Judah had been exiled to Babylon because of its treachery.

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember against them, my God, how they defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites!

Nehemiah 7:5

When my God had inspired me to gather together the nobles, the magistrates, and the people, and to examine their family records, I came upon the family list of those who had returned in the earliest period. There I found the following written:

Nehemiah 7:63

Also, of the priests: descendants of Hobaiah, descendants of Hakkoz, descendants of Barzillai (he had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was named after him).

Nehemiah 7:65

and the governor ordered them not to partake of the most holy foods until there should be a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

Leviticus 4:3

If it is the anointed priest who thus does wrong and thereby makes the people guilty, he shall offer to the Lord an unblemished bull of the herd as a purification offering for the wrong he committed.