Ezra 2:62

Overview - Ezra 2
The number that return of the people;
36 of the priests;
40 of the Levites;
43 of the Nethinims;
55 of Solomon's servants;
61 of the priests who could not shew their pedigree.
64 The whole number of them, with their substance.
68 Their oblations.
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Ezra 2:62  (King James Version)
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
 


therefore
Leviticus 21:21-23 ; Numbers 3:10 ; 16:40 18:7

were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood
Hebrew they
were polluted from the priesthood.
Ezekiel 44:10-14