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Nehemiah 13:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
Nehemiah 13:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, (A)but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: and our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3 Now when they had heard the Law, they separated from Israel [a]all those that were mixed.
4 ¶ And before [b]this had the Priest Eliashib the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, being [c]kinsman to Tobiah:
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- Nehemiah 13:3 That is, all such which had joined in unlawful marriage, and also those with whom God had forbidden them to have society.
- Nehemiah 13:4 That the separation was made.
- Nehemiah 13:4 He was joined in affinity with Tobiah the Ammonite and enemy of the Jews.
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