Nehemiah 13:2-4

Common English Bible

² This is because they hadn’t met the Israelites with food and water but instead hired Balaam against them to curse them. Yet our God turned the curse into a blessing. ³ When the people heard this law, they separated out from Israel all those of mixed descent.

⁴ Now before this, however, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed to be in charge of the storerooms of our God’s house and who was related to Tobiah,