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.


In Context

61 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

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

63 Of 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.

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 priest with Urim and Thummim.

66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:64These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

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 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.