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Nehemiah 7:65

The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

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Cross-references (12)

Passages linked to Nehemiah 7:65 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 28:30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.
  • Nehemiah 8:9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
  • Deuteronomy 33:8 About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
  • Ezra 2:63 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.
  • Nehemiah 10:1 Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
  • Numbers 27:21 He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”
  • Leviticus 2:3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
  • Leviticus 2:10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
  • Leviticus 6:17 It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering.
  • Leviticus 7:19-20 “ ‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it; but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
  • Leviticus 10:17-18 “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh? Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”
  • Leviticus 21:21-23 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’ ”

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Explain this verse (5 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, Nehemiah: for Tirshatha in the Chaldean tongue signifieth…

Meaning, Nehemiah: for Tirshatha in the Chaldean tongue signifieth a butler.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Athersatha; Nehemias, (Calmet) as he is called in Chaldean,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 65. the Tirshatha] R.V. marg. Or, governor.
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Tirshatta i.e. governor, Neh 8:9.
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 7:65 Urim and Thummim . . . sacred lots:…

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