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 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition These sought their registration among those recorded in the genealogies, but it was not found; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean. American Standard Version (1901) These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. Common English Bible looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they weren’t found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. Catholic Public Domain Version These sought their writing in the census, and they did not find it, and so they were cast out of the priesthood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood. |
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.
Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
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:
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.
The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
‘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.