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61 Descendants of the Priests:

Descendants of Habaiah, Hakkoz,[a] and Barzillai, who married one of the daughters of Barzillai from Gilead and took that name.

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[b] also ruled that they shouldn’t eat anything holy until a priest arose with Urim and Thummim.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 2:61 Cf. Neh 7:63 Koz
  2. Ezra 2:63 The Heb. lacks Zerubbabel
  3. 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