Nehemiah 7:63-65
1599 Geneva Bible
63 And of the Priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was named after their name.
64 These sought their writing of the genealogies, but it was not found: therefore they were put from the Priesthood.
65 And [a]the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy, till there rose up a Priest with (A)Urim and Thummim.
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- Nehemiah 7:65 Meaning, Nehemiah: for Tirshatha in the Chaldean tongue signifieth a butler.
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