27 [a]Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil (A)by acting unfaithfully against our God by [b]marrying foreign women?” 28 Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of (B)Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me. 29 (C)Remember them, O my God, [c]because they have defiled the priesthood and the (D)covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:27 Or Is it reported
  2. Nehemiah 13:27 Lit giving dwelling to
  3. Nehemiah 13:29 Lit for the defilings of

27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying(A) foreign women?”

28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib(B) the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat(C) the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.

29 Remember(D) them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.(E)

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