22 Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves(A) and guard the city gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.(B)

Remember me for this also, my God,(C) and look on me with compassion according to the abundance of your faithful love.(D)

23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.(E) 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples but could not speak Hebrew.[a](F)

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  1. 13:24 Lit Judahite

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