Now when they had heard the Law, they separated from Israel [a]all those that were mixed.

¶ And before [b]this had the Priest Eliashib the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, being [c]kinsman to Tobiah:

And he had made him a great chamber, and there had they aforetime laid the offerings, the incense, and the vessels, and the tithes of corn, of wine, and of oil (appointed for the Levites, and the singers, and the porters) and the offerings of the Priests.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:3 That is, all such which had joined in unlawful marriage, and also those with whom God had forbidden them to have society.
  2. Nehemiah 13:4 That the separation was made.
  3. Nehemiah 13:4 He was joined in affinity with Tobiah the Ammonite and enemy of the Jews.

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