Nehemiah 13:1 (KJV)

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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

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they read. Heb. there was read. Ne 8:3-8 Ne 9:3 De 31:11 De 31:12 2Ki 23:2 Isa 34:16 Lu 4:16-19 Lu 10:26 Ac 13:15 Ac 15:21

audience. Heb. ears. the Ammonite. Ne 13:23 De 23:3-5 Isa 15:1-16:14 Jer 48:1-47 Eze 25:1-11 Am 2:1-3

Moabite. Ne 2:10 Ne 2:19 Ne 4:3 Ps 83:7-9 Jer 49:1-6 Am 1:13-15

23 and the marriages with the strange wives. that day.Some suppose that the events recorded in these verses took place several years after those related in the preceding chapter, while Nehemiah was absent at the Persian court; but the introductory language, on that day, seems rather to imply that they occurred immediately, or at least about that time.

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