Nehemiah 13:3-5

New Catholic Bible

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, ⁵ had provided for Tobiah a large room in which previously had been stored the grain offerings, the incense, the temple vessels, the tithes of grain, wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.