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


In Context

1 On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God,

2 because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)

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

4 Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah,

5 and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:3And it came to pass, when they 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.