Bible verse
As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.
Nehemiah 13:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Nehemiah 13.
1 At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
2 because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
3 As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.
4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
5 and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
6 While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
7 to return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.
KJV
Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
ASV
And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
ERV
And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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