Nehemiah 7:64

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.

Nehemiah 7:64 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 7:64

(See Gill on Nehemiah 7:6).

Nehemiah 7:64 In-Context

62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty two.

63 And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, who took [one] of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite for a wife, and was called after their name.

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.

65 And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there should stand [up] a priest with Urim and Thummim.

66 The whole congregation together [was] forty two thousand three hundred and sixty.