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Nehemiah 13:2

World English Bible

because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

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Nehemiah 13:2 in other translations

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

Nehemiah 13:2 · American Standard Version

Nehemiah 13:2 in context

  1. 1On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
  2. 2because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
  3. 3It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.
  4. 4Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,