Nehemiah 7:64 - Easy To Read Version

⁶⁴ These people searched for their family histories, but they could not find them. They could not prove that their ancestors {\cf2\super [34]} were priests, so they could serve as priests. Their names were not included in the list of priests.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶⁴ 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

⁶⁴ 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)

⁶⁴ 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

⁶⁴ 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

⁶⁴ 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

⁶⁴ These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood.

Nehemiah 7:64 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 9:1

The names of all the people of Israel were listed in their family histories. Those family histories were put in the book The History of the Kings of Israel.

Nehemiah 13:29

My God, punish those people. They made the priesthood unclean. They treated it like it was not important. They did not obey the agreement that you made with the priests and Levites.

Nehemiah 7:5

So my God put it in my heart to have all the people meet together. I called together all the important people, the officials, and the common people. I did this so I could make a list of all the families. I found the family lists {\cf2\super [22]} of the people that had been the first to return from captivity. This is what I found written there:

Nehemiah 7:63

From the family of priests there were the descendants {\cf2\super [33]} of:

Nehemiah 7:65

The governor ordered these people not eat any of the most holy food. They could not eat any of this food until the \{high\} priest could use the Urim and Thummim {\cf2\super [35]} to ask God what to do.

Leviticus 4:3

“If the anointed priest [23] makes a mistake in a way that leaves the people guilty for their sin, then the priest must make an offering to the Lord for his sin. The priest must offer a young bull that has nothing wrong with it. He must offer the young bull to the Lord as a sin offering.