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Nehemiah 7:64

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These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.

Context

61These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their offspring, whether they were of Israel:
62The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.
63Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
64These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
65The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.
66The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
67in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. They had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.

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