64 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
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Nehemiah 7:64 In-Context
62 The children of Delayah, the children of Toviyah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.
63 Of the Kohanim: the children of Havayah, the children of Hakkotz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gil`adite, and was called after their name.
64 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
65 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a Kohen with Urim and Tummim.
66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,