Nehemiah 13:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² since they had not come to welcome the Israelites with food and water, but they rather hired Balaam to curse them, even though our God turned the curse into a blessing.” ³ When the people heard the law, they excluded from Israel all those of foreign descent.

Reform in the Temple. ⁴ However, before this, the priest Eliashib,^[a] who had been appointed to be in charge of the chambers of the house of our God and who was a close associate of Tobiah,