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Nehemiah 13:1-3
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Nehemiah 13:1-3
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Nehemiah tells people to obey God's Law
13 On that day, we read the book of Moses aloud to the people. One of the laws said that no descendant of Ammon or Moab should ever join with God's people when they met together. 2 This was because they had not given the Israelites food and water. Instead, they had paid Balaam to curse the Israelites. But God did not agree to curse them. He blessed them instead.[a]
3 When the Israelite people heard this law, they sent away all the people who had foreign ancestors.
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- 13:2 This was at the time when the Israelites had left Egypt. They were travelling to the land that God had promised to give them. See Deuteronomy 23:3-5; Numbers 22:1-6.
Nehemiah 13:1-3
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Nehemiah 13:1-3
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Nehemiah’s Final Reforms
13 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,(A) 2 because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam(B) to call a curse down on them.(C) (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)(D) 3 When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.(E)
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