⁶⁴ These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

Lists of Returned Exiles

⁵ Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of ^(A)those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

A Genealogy of the Returned Exiles

9 So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And ^(A)Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith.

^29 (A)Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood ^(B)and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

¹¹ “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there ^(A)a man who had no wedding garment. ¹² And he said to him, ^(B)‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. ¹³ Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and ^(C)cast him into the outer darkness. In that place ^(D)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

¹¹ Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ^(A)‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ ^12 (B)But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, ^(C)I do not know you.’

³ if it is the anointed priest who ^(A)sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed ^(B)a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering.