61 These were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, [a]Addon, and Immer; but they could not provide evidence for their fathers’ households or their [b]descendants, whether they were of Israel: 62 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642. 63 And of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai, the Gileadite, and was named after them. 64 These searched among their ancestral registration, but it could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean and disqualified from the priesthood.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:61 In Ezra 2:59, Addan
  2. Nehemiah 7:61 Lit seed

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