Nehemiah 13:2-4

Lexham English Bible

² because they did not come to meet the Israelites^[a] with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them in order to curse them—but our God changed the curse into a blessing. ³ So it happened when they heard the law^[b] that they separated all of the foreign people from Israel.

Nehemiah Brings Reform

⁴ Before this, Eliashib the priest who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God—the one related to Tobiah—