These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Nehemiah 13
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- 1 On that day they read in the book of in the hearing of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the of for ever;
- 2 because they met not the children of with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to them; howbeit our turned the into a .
- 3 And it came to pass, when they had heard the , that they separated from all the alien mixture.
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Now before this, Eliashib the , who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our , being allied unto Tobiah,
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had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which were given by to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.
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But in all this time I was not at ; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes of I went unto the , and after certain days asked I leave of the ;
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and I came to , and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of .
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And it grieved me sore; therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
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Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers; and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of , with the meal-offerings and the frankincense.
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- 10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
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Then contended I with the rulers, and said: ‘Why is the house of forsaken?’ And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
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Then brought all the of the corn and the wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
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- 13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the , and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah; and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
- 14 Remember me, O my , concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my , and for the wards thereof.
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In those days saw I in some treading winepresses on the , and bringing in heaps of corn, and lading asses therewith; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into on the day; and I forewarned them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
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Nehemiah 10:31 Exodus 34:21 Nehemiah 13:21 Jeremiah 17:21-22 Exodus 20:8-11 Isaiah 58:13 Jeremiah 17:27 Numbers 15:32-36 Exodus 35:2 Deuteronomy 8:19 Jeremiah 17:24 Deuteronomy 5:12-14 Ezekiel 20:13 Revelation 22:18-19 Nehemiah 9:29 Ephesians 4:17 Jeremiah 42:19 Galatians 5:3 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Psalm 50:7 2 Chronicles 24:19 Acts 2:40 Micah 6:3 Acts 20:21 -
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There dwelt men of also therein, who brought in fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the unto the children of , and in .
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- 17 Then I contended with the nobles of , and said unto them: ‘What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the day?
- 18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon by profaning the .’
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And it came to pass that, when the gates of began to be dark before the , I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the ; and some of my servants set I over the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the day.
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- 20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without once or twice.
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Then I forewarned them, and said unto them: ‘Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you.’ From that time forth came they no more on the .
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And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the day. Remember unto me, O my , this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Thy .
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Nehemiah 12:30 Nehemiah 13:14 Nehemiah 13:31 2 Chronicles 29:30 2 Timothy 4:7-8 Nehemiah 5:19 Nehemiah 7:64-65 Psalm 51:1 Isaiah 38:3 2 Corinthians 1:12 2 Kings 23:4 Nehemiah 12:10 2 Chronicles 29:4-5 2 Chronicles 29:27 Psalm 130:3-4 Isaiah 55:7 Isaiah 49:23 Psalm 132:1-5 Psalm 25:6-7 Deuteronomy 5:12 Psalm 5:7 1 Chronicles 15:12-14 Psalm 130:7 2 Chronicles 29:24 Psalm 143:1-2 -
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In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of ;
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and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
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- 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by : ‘Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
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Did not of sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no like him, and he was beloved of his , and made him over all ; nevertheless even him did the foreign women cause to sin.
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Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break with our in marrying foreign women?’
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- 28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high , was son-in- to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
- 29 Remember them, O my , because they have defiled the , and the of the , and of the Levites.
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Thus cleansed I them from everything foreign, and appointed wards for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his work;
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and for the wood-, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my , for good.
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