Nehemiah 7:64

The Message

They looked high and low for their family records but couldn’t find them. And so they were barred from priestly work as ritually unclean. The governor ruled that they could not eat from the holy food until a priest could determine their status by using the Urim and Thummim.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 9:1

This is the complete family tree for all Israel, recorded in the Royal Annals of the Kings of Israel and Judah at the time they were exiled to Babylon because of their unbelieving and disobedient lives.

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, O my God, how they defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priests and Levites. * * *

Nehemiah 7:5

God put it in my heart to gather the nobles, the officials, and the people in general to be registered. I found the genealogical record of those who were in the first return from exile. This is the record I found: