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Nehemiah’s Last Commands

13 On that day the Book of Moses was read out loud, so that all the people could hear. They found this law written there: No Ammonite and no Moabite would be permitted to join in the meetings with God. That law was written because those people didn’t give the Israelites food and water. And they had paid Balaam to say a curse against the Israelites. But our God changed that curse and made it a blessing for us. So when the Israelites heard that law, they obeyed it. They separated themselves from the people who were descendants of foreigners.

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Nehemiah’s Final Reforms

13 On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God,(A) because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam(B) to call a curse down on them.(C) (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)(D) When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.(E)

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Ultimele reforme ale lui Neemia

13 În ziua aceea s-a citit în auzul poporului din Cartea lui Moise şi s-a găsit scris în ea că amonitului şi moabitului le este interzisă pe veci intrarea în adunarea lui Dumnezeu, deoarece nu i-au întâmpinat pe israeliţi cu pâine şi cu apă, ci l-au tocmit pe Balaam împotriva lor, ca să-i blesteme. Cu toate acestea, Dumnezeu a schimbat blestemul în binecuvântare. Când au auzit ce spune Legea, i-au separat de ceilalţi pe toţi cei din Israel cu descendenţă amestecată.

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13 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

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