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Because they met not the Bnei Yisroel with lechem and with mayim, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them; howbeit Eloheinu turned the kelalah into a brocha.

Now it came to pass, when they had heard the Torah, that they separated from Yisroel all the foreign descent.

And before this, Elyashiv the Kohen, having the oversight of the storeroom of the Beis Eloheinu, was allied unto Toviyah;

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because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam(A) to call a curse down on them.(B) (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)(C) When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.(D)

Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms(E) of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah,(F)

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