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Bible in Basic English
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
New American Standard Bible
These searched among their ancestral registration, but it could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.
International Standard Version
These people searched for their ancestral records, but they couldn't be located. Accordingly, they were considered disqualified from the priesthood.
A Conservative Version
These sought their registration [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found. Therefore they were deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
American Standard Version
These 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.
Amplified
These men searched for their ancestral registration among those recorded in the genealogies, but it was not located; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.
Darby Translation
These sought their genealogical register, but it was not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood.
Julia Smith Translation
These sought their writing of those being enrolled, and it was not found: and they will be defiled from the priesthood.
King James 2000
These sought their registration among those that were enrolled by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as defiled, put from the priesthood.
Lexham Expanded Bible
These sought their record among those enrolled in the genealogy, but it was not found there, so they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood.
Modern King James verseion
These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found. Therefore they were put out, as defiled from the priesthood.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
These sought the register of their generation, and when they found it not, they were put from the priesthood.
NET Bible
They searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but none were found. They were therefore excluded from the priesthood.
New Heart English Bible
These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn't find them. Therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
The Emphasized Bible
These, sought their writing wherein they were registered, but it was not found, - so they were desecrated out of the priesthood;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
These have sought their register among those reckoning themselves by genealogy, and it hath not been found, and they are redeemed from the priesthood,
Themes
Genealogies » Priests who could not prove their own, excluded from the priesthood
Levites » The list of those who returned from captivity
Priest » Miscellaneous facts concerning » Return from the captivity
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nehemiah 7:64
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Context Readings
Lists Of The Exiles Who Returned
63 And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name. 64 They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests. 65 And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.
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Leviticus 4:3
If the chief priest by doing wrong becomes a cause of sin to the people, then let him give to the Lord for the sin which he has done, an ox, without any mark, for a sin-offering.
1 Chronicles 9:1
So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.
Nehemiah 7:5
And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:
Nehemiah 13:29
Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.
Matthew 22:11-13
But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;
Matthew 25:11-12
After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in.