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Nehemiah 13:1-3
Lexham English Bible
Nehemiah 13:1-3
Lexham English Bible
Israel Separates Itself
13 On that day the book of Moses was read in the hearing of the people and it was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God 2 because they did not come to meet the Israelites[a] with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them in order to curse them—but our God changed the curse into a blessing. 3 So it happened when they heard the law[b] that they separated all of the foreign people from Israel.
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- Nehemiah 13:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Nehemiah 13:3 Hebrew torah
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