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27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. 29 Remember them, O my God, [a]because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

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  1. Nehemiah 13:29 Hebrew for the defilings of etc.

27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying(A) foreign women?”

28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib(B) the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat(C) the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.

29 Remember(D) them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.(E)

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