Nehemiah 7:64
“These sought their register, among those that were reckoned by genealogie, but it was not found: therfore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.”
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Nehemiah 7:64 Context
62The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, sixe hundred fourtie and two. 63¶ And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which tooke one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name. 64These sought their register, among those that were reckoned by genealogie, but it was not found: therfore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. 65And the Tirshatha said vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy things, till there stood vp a priest with Urim and Thummim. 66¶ The whole congregation together, was fourtie and two thousand, three hundred and threescore:
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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.
- King James Version
These searched {among} their ancestral registration, but it could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean {and excluded} from the priesthood.
- New American Standard Version (1995)