Nehemiah 7:64

WEB

⁶⁴These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.

KJV

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.

BSB

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

FBV

⁶⁴They searched for a record of them in the genealogies, but their names weren't found, so they were barred from serving as priests.

Extra References

1 Chronicles 9:1

¹So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, ^[+] they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.

⁵My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:

Nehemiah 13:29

²⁹Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Matthew 22:11-13

¹¹“But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, ¹²and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. ¹³Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

Matthew 25:11-12

¹¹Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ ¹²But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

Leviticus 4:3

³if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to the LORD for a sin offering.