⁵⁹ The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their families or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

⁶² These looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they were not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;^(A)

Lists of the Returned Exiles

⁵ Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who were the first to come back, and I found the following written in it:

¹⁰ You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord.^(A)

¹² Then you shall know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not kept, but you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”^(A)