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Nehemiah 13:27-29
GOD’S WORD Translation
Nehemiah 13:27-29
GOD’S WORD Translation
27 Should we follow your example, commit such a serious crime against our God, and be unfaithful to him by marrying non-Israelite women?”
28 Even one of Joiada’s sons was a son-in-law of Sanballat from Beth Horon. (Joiada was the son of the chief priest Eliashib.) I chased Joiada’s son away from me.
29 ⌞Nehemiah prayed,⌟ “Remember them, my God, because they have contaminated the priestly office and the promise [a] you made to the priests and Levites.”
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- 13:29 Or “covenant.”
Nehemiah 13:27-29
New International Version
Nehemiah 13:27-29
New International Version
27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying(A) foreign women?”
28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib(B) the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat(C) the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.
29 Remember(D) them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.(E)
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