24And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.


In Context

21 And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath.

22 I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

23 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

24 And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.

25 And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing? and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: m and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.

Nehemiah 13:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:24Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:24and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews language, but according to the language of each people.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:24And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:24and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:24And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews language, but according to the language of each people.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:24and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:24And of their sons, half are speaking Ashdoditish — and are not knowing to speak Jewish — and according to the language of people and people.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:24And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.