Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lists Of The Exiles Who Returned
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.
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Cross References
Leviticus 4:3
if 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 blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering.
1 Chronicles 9:1
So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
Nehemiah 7:5
My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:
Nehemiah 13:29
Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
Matthew 22:11-13
But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing,
Matthew 25:11-12
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'