Nehemiah 7:64

New International Version

These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 9:1

All Israel was listed in the genealogies recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. They were taken captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Nehemiah 7:5

So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had been the first to return. This is what I found written there:

Nehemiah 7:63

And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai (a man who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name).

Nehemiah 7:65

The governor, therefore, ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there should be a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.

Leviticus 4:3

“ ‘If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the Lord a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.