A moment in scripture
Nehemiah 7:62
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
The surrounding passage
- Nehemiah 7:60
All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
- Nehemiah 7:61
And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
- Nehemiah 7:63
And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
- Nehemiah 7:64
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.