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What does Ezra 2:63 mean?
"The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim."
— Ezra 2:63 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.
Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, and the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.
The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
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