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Ezra 2:62
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60 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two;
61 and of the sons of the priests: the sons of aHabaiah, the sons of Koz, and the sons of bBarzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name.  
62 These sought their listing among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found; atherefore they were excluded from the priesthood as defiled.  
63 And the1 governor said to them that they ashould not eat of the most holy things till a priest could consult with the bUrim and Thummim.  
64 aThe whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ezra 2:61-62

the children of Barzillai—He preferred that name to that of his own family, deeming it a greater distinction to be connected with so noble a family, than to be of the house of Levi. But by this worldly ambition he forfeited the dignity and advantages of the priesthood.




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