Nehemiah 13:29

13:29 Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, ¹  and the Levites.

Nehemiah 7:64

7:64 They searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but none were found. They were therefore excluded ²  from the priesthood.

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¹ tc One medieval Hebrew MS, the Lucianic Greek recension, and the Syriac Peshitta read the plural הַכֹּהֲנִים (hakkohanim, “the priests”) rather than the singular reading of the MT, הַכְּהֻנָּה (hakkÿhunnah, “the priesthood”).

² tn Heb “they were desecrated.”