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|Nehemías 13:1|
On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God,
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|Nehemías 13:2|
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)
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|Nehemías 13:3|
When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.
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|Nehemías 13:4|
Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah,
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|Nehemías 13:5|
and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.
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|Nehemías 13:6|
But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission
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|Nehemías 13:7|
and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God.
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|Nehemías 13:8|
I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
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|Nehemías 13:9|
I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.
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|Nehemías 13:10|
I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and singers responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields.
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