64These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.


In Context

61 The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:

62 the descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah and Nekoda 642

63 And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai (a man who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name).

64 These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

65 The governor, therefore, ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there should be a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.

66 The whole company numbered 42,360,

Nehemiah 7:64 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:64These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:64These sought their writing in the re- cord, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:64These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:64These sought their genealogical register, but it was not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:64These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:64These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:64These 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:64These have sought their register among those reckoning themselves by genealogy, and it hath not been found, and they are redeemed from the priesthood,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:64These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.