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Mijamin

post-exilic priest

A priest who returned from Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel and is associated with sealing Nehemiah's covenant.

2 appearances1 Bible books1 known aliases

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Mijamin was a priest who returned from with and in the first wave of exiles (Neh 12:5). A Mijamin (or Miniamin) is also listed among the priests who set their seals to the covenant under (Neh 10:7), pledging the community's loyalty to the law. Whether these two references describe the same individual or successive priests in the same family is not certain from the text.

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