Nehemiah 13:3 KJV — MannaFest

Nehemiah 13:3

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

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ASV

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

WEB

As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.

YLT

And it cometh to pass, at their hearing the law, that they separate all the mixed people from Israel.

DBT

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

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Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.

Author: Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside
Date: Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC

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Nehemiah 9:2
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Exodus 12:38
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
Numbers 11:4
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Nehemiah 10:28
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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Or, perhaps, it was on the anniversary commemoration of that day, some years after, and therefore said to be on that day. They found a law, that the Ammonites and Moabites should not be naturalized, should not settle among them, nor unite with them,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They separated from Israel all the mixed multitude, which had of old been a snare to them, for the mixed multitude fell a lusting, Num. xi. These inmates they expelled, as usurpers and dangerous. The particular case of Tobiah, who was an Ammonite, and to whom, it is likely, the historian had an eye in the recital of the law (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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