61. The following who returned from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer were unable to prove that their ancestral houses and their descent were Israelite:
62. descendants of Delaiah, descendants of Tobiah, descendants of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.
63. Also, of the priests: descendants of Hobaiah, descendants of Hakkoz, descendants of Barzillai (he had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was named after him).
64. These men searched their family records, but their names could not be found written there; hence they were disqualified from the priesthood,
65. and the governor ordered them not to partake of the most holy foods until there should be a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
66. The entire assembly taken together came to forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
67. not counting their male and female servants, who were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred male and female singers. Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,