It was very displeasing to me, so I (A)threw all of Tobiah’s household articles out of the room. Then I gave an order, and (B)they cleansed the rooms; and I returned the utensils of the house of God there with the grain offering and the frankincense.

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10 I also [a]discovered that (C)the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so the Levites and the singers who performed the service had [b]gone away, (D)each to his own field.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:10 Or knew
  2. Nehemiah 13:10 Lit fled

I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.(A) I gave orders to purify the rooms,(B) and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.(C)

10 I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them,(D) and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields.(E)

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