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62 These people tried to find their names in the lists of priests' families. But they could not find anything. So they could not serve as priests. 63 The officer in Judah said that they could not eat the priests' special food. They must wait until there was a leader of the priests who could use the Urim and Thummim to decide the right thing to do.[a]

64 All together, 42,360 people returned to Jerusalem.

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  1. 2:63 The Urim and Thummim were special stones. God used them to show the priests what he wanted.