Nehemiah 13:4-6

Contemporary English Version

Nehemiah Makes Other Changes

⁴ The priest Eliashib was a relative of Tobiah and had earlier been put in charge of the temple storerooms. ⁵ So he let Tobiah live in one of these rooms, where all kinds of things had been stored—the grain offerings, incense, utensils for the temple, as well as the tenth of the grain, wine, and olive oil that had been given for the use of the Levites, singers, and temple guards, and the gifts for the priests.

⁶ This happened in the thirty-second year that Artaxerxes^[a] ruled Babylonia. I was away from Jerusalem at the time, because I was visiting him. Later I received permission from the king