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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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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:62 Cf. Ezra 2:60 652
  2. Nehemiah 7:63 Cf. Ezra 7:61 Hakkoz
  3. Nehemiah 7:64 Lit. unclean
  4. Nehemiah 7:65 Lit. Tirshatha; i.e. a Persian title
  5. 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
  6. Nehemiah 7:67 Cf. Ezra 2:65 200
  7. Nehemiah 7:68 Some MT mss. lack this v.

61 The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:

62 the descendants of
Delaiah, Tobiah and Nekoda642

63 And from among the priests:

the descendants of
Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai (a man who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name).

64 These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. 65 The governor, therefore, ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there should be a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.(A)

66 The whole company numbered 42,360, 67 besides their 7,337 male and female slaves; and they also had 245 male and female singers. 68 There were 736 horses, 245 mules,[a] 69 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:68 Some Hebrew manuscripts (see also Ezra 2:66); most Hebrew manuscripts do not have this verse.