Nehemiah 7:64

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These searched for their records in the genealogical listings, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.

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  • Lev 4:3 : 3 if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt upon the people, he must offer a young bull without defect to the LORD as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.
  • 1 Chr 9:1 : 1 All Israel was registered in genealogies, and behold, they were written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
  • Neh 7:5 : 5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had returned first, and this is what I discovered written there:
  • Neh 13:29 : 29 Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood and breaking the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
  • Matt 22:11-13 : 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless. 13 Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him out into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
  • Matt 25:11-12 : 11 Later, the other virgins also came and said, ‘Lord, lord, open the door for us.’ 12 But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’

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    61And from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai—who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and took that name.

    62These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

    63The governor instructed them not to eat of the most holy things until a priest could consult the Urim and Thummim.

  • Neh 7:65
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    65The governor told them not to eat the most holy food until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.

  • Neh 7:61-63
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    61The following are those who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their family's lineage, nor their ancestry, to confirm if they were from Israel:

    62The descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda: 642.

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  • Neh 13:29-30
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    29Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood and breaking the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

    30Thus I purified them from everything foreign and assigned duties to the priests and Levites, each to his task.

  • Ezra 2:59
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    59These are the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but could not prove their families or their lineage as being of Israel:

  • Neh 7:5
    70%

    5Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had returned first, and this is what I discovered written there:

  • Num 1:47
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    47However, the Levites, by their ancestral tribe, were not included in the census among them.

  • Neh 7:46-47
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    46The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, and the descendants of Tabbaoth.

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  • Ezra 10:18
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    18Among the descendants of the priests, the following were found to have married foreign women: From the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
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    9Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of what are not gods.

  • Heb 7:13
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    13For the one about whom these things are spoken belongs to a different tribe, one from which no one has ever served at the altar.

  • Lam 4:15-16
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    15“Go away! You are unclean!” people shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” When they fled and wandered, the nations said, “They can stay here no longer.”

    16The LORD Himself has scattered them; He will no longer watch over them. The priests are not honored, and the elders receive no favor.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
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    34But because there were too few priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was completed and the priests had consecrated themselves, for the Levites were more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests.

  • 2 Chr 31:17-19
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    17They also ensured the genealogical enrollment of the priests by their family divisions, and the Levites from twenty years old and older followed their duties according to their assigned divisions.

    18They included the registration of all their dependents—their wives, their sons, and their daughters—throughout the entire congregation, as they sanctified themselves in faithfulness and holiness.

    19For the descendants of Aaron, the priests who lived in the fields surrounding their towns, men were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone enlisted in the genealogical records among the Levites.

  • 2 Chr 30:3
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    3They could not celebrate it at the proper time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves, and the people had not gathered in Jerusalem.

  • Heb 7:20
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    20And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,

  • Ezra 7:24
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    24Furthermore, we notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, tax, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or other workers in this house of God.

  • Ezra 9:1-2
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    1When these things were completed, the officials approached me and said, 'The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples and their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.'

    2They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands. Furthermore, the leaders and officials have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.

  • 1 Chr 24:6
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    6Shemaiah, son of Nethanel, the scribe, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king, the officials, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of the families of the priests and of the Levites. One family was drawn for Eleazar and another for Ithamar.

  • 2 Chr 29:16
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    16The priests entered the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it. They brought out all the unclean things they found in the temple of the LORD and carried them to the courtyard of the house of the LORD. The Levites then took them and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

  • Num 26:64
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    64But among them, there was not one man who had been included in the census Moses and Aaron the priest conducted when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

  • Num 9:7
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    7and those men said to him, "We are unclean because of contact with a dead body. Why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD's offering at its appointed time with the rest of the people of Israel?"

  • Neh 12:7
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    7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and their brothers in the days of Jeshua.

  • Ezra 8:15
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    15I gathered them at the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I observed the people and the priests, but I found no Levites there.

  • Heb 7:23
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    23Now there have been many priests since death prevented them from continuing in office;

  • Neh 7:7
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  • Neh 12:22-23
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    22The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua were recorded as heads of families, and so were the priests, during the reign of Darius the Persian.

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  • 1 Chr 9:10
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    10From the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jachin.

  • Num 8:6
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    6Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

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  • Heb 7:3
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  • Num 2:33
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    33The Levites were not counted among the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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