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62 These people searched for their ancestral registrations but they couldn’t be located. Accordingly, they were assigned an “unclean” status and couldn’t be priests. 63 Governor Zerubbabel[a] also ruled that they shouldn’t eat anything holy until a priest arose with Urim and Thummim.[b]

64 The entire assembly numbered 42,360,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 2:63 The Heb. lacks Zerubbabel
  2. Ezra 2:63 I.e. a high priest to whom God would reveal his will through the jewel-encrusted breastplate that he wore; cf. Exod 28:30, Neh 7:65

62 These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood(A) as unclean. 63 The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food(B) until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.(C)

64 The whole company numbered 42,360,

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