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[a] 27 Must we then hear about you doing all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful with our God by marrying foreign women?”

28 Now one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the kohen gadol, was son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him from me. 29 O my God, please remember them for the defilement of the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

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  1. Nehemiah 13:27 cf. Matt. 6:29.

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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