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Some sought their registration records but could not find them, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean Nehemiah 7:64. The governor told them not to partake of the most holy food until a priest could consult Urim and Thummim Nehemiah 7:65.
64These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
65The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.