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Nehemiah - ch 13 v 21 - 31
- Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.
- And I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the doors and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.
- And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:
- And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.
- And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
- Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.
- Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
- And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me.
- Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.
- So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
- And for the wood offering, at fixed times, and for the first fruits. Keep me in mind, O my God, for good.
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