Nehemiah 7:64
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These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
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Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.