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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