3And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.


In Context

1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and there was found written in it that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

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

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

4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, who had the oversight of the chambers of the house of our God, a kinsman of Tobijah,

5 had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the oblations, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine and the oil, which was commanded for the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers, and the heave-offerings of the priests.

Nehemiah 13:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:3When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:3And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:3And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:3And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:3It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:3And it cometh to pass, at their hearing the law, that they separate all the mixed people from Israel.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.