Nehemiah 7:61-69
International Standard Version
Non-Documented Persons(A)
61 Here is a list of returnees from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, who could not prove their ancestry and lineage from Israel:
62 Descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda: 642[a]
63 Of the Priests:
Descendants of Habaiah, Koz,[b] and Barzillai, who married one of the daughters of Barzillai from Gilead and took that name.
64 These people searched for their ancestral records, but they couldn’t be located. Accordingly, they were considered disqualified[c] from the priesthood. 65 The governor[d] ordered them not to eat anything holy until a priest would be installed with Urim and Thummim.[e]
66 The entire assembly numbered 42,360, 67 not including their 7,337 male and female servants. They had 245[f] men and women singers. 68 [g]They had 736 horses, 245 mules, 69 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
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- Nehemiah 7:62 Cf. Ezra 2:60 652
- Nehemiah 7:63 Cf. Ezra 7:61 Hakkoz
- Nehemiah 7:64 Lit. unclean
- Nehemiah 7:65 Lit. Tirshatha; i.e. a Persian title
- Nehemiah 7:65 I.e. a high priest to whom God would reveal his will through the jewel-encrusted breastplate that he wore; cf. Exod 28:30, Ezra 2:63
- Nehemiah 7:67 Cf. Ezra 2:65 200
- Nehemiah 7:68 Some MT mss. lack this v.
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