Nehemiah 13:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

So it happened, when they heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

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  • Neh 9:2 : 2 The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.
  • Exod 12:38 : 38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large amount of livestock.
  • Num 11:4 : 4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us meat to eat?
  • Neh 10:28 : 28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinims, and all those who had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having knowledge and understanding;
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is your servant warned, and in keeping them there is great reward.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 BETH. How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • Ezra 10:11 : 11 Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.

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  • Ezra 9:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

    2 For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has mingled with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

  • Neh 9:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the children of Israel gathered with fasting and wearing sackcloth, and with earth upon them.

    2 The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

    3 They stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.

  • Neh 10:28-29
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    28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinims, and all those who had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having knowledge and understanding;

    29 They joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes;

  • Ezra 10:3
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    3 Therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

  • Neh 13:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 On that day they read from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written that the Ammonite and the Moabite should never enter the assembly of God forever,

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

  • Lam 4:15-16
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    70%

    15 They cried to them, 'Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch!' When they fled and wandered, they said among the nations, 'They shall no longer dwell there.'

    16 The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no longer regard them; they showed no respect to the priests, nor favored the elders.

  • Neh 13:27-30
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    27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?

    28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; therefore, I drove him from me.

    29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

    30 Thus I cleansed them of everything foreign, and I assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his service,

  • Esth 3:8
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    8 And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws are different from all people; neither do they keep the king's laws. Therefore, it is not profitable for the king to tolerate them."

  • Ezra 6:21
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    21 And the children of Israel who had returned from captivity, and all those who had separated themselves unto them from the impurity of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, ate,

  • Neh 8:1
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    1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one person in the street before the Water Gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

  • Ezra 10:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, You have transgressed and have taken foreign wives, adding to the guilt of Israel.

    11 Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.

  • Ezra 3:1
    68%

    1 And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one person to Jerusalem.

  • Neh 13:23-25
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    23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;

    24 and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of each people.

    25 So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.

  • Neh 8:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 And on the second day, the heads of the fathers' houses of all the people, the priests, and the Levites gathered to Ezra the scribe to study the words of the law.

    14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month:

  • Deut 29:21
    68%

    21 And the LORD shall separate him for disaster out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

  • Ezra 10:13-14
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    67%

    13 But there are many people, and it is a time of heavy rain, and we are not able to stand outside. Nor is this a task that can be accomplished in a day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

    14 Let our leaders of the entire assembly stand, and let all those in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God concerning this matter is turned away from us.

  • Ezra 8:24
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    24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

  • Neh 8:7-8
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    67%

    7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites helped the people to understand the law; and the people stood in their place.

    8 So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading.

  • Lev 15:31
    67%

    31 Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

  • Lev 20:23
    67%

    23 And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Ezra 10:16-17
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    66%

    16 So the descendants of the captivity did accordingly. And Ezra the priest, along with certain heads of the fathers' households, each of them by name, were designated, and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

    17 By the first day of the first month, they finished questioning all the men who had taken foreign wives.

  • Ps 106:35
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    35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

  • Neh 13:4
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    4 Before this, Eliashib the priest, who was in charge of the chambers of the house of our God, was allied with Tobiah;

  • Ezra 10:8
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    8 and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, all his property would be forfeited, and he himself would be separated from the congregation of those who had been carried away.

  • Num 5:4
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    4 And the children of Israel did so, and removed them outside the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

  • Josh 23:12
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    12 Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you:

  • Num 16:21
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    21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

  • Ezra 10:19
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    19 They gave their promise that they would put away their wives. Being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock for their guilt offering.

  • Exod 35:20
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    20 And all the assembly of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

  • Num 8:6
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    6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them.

  • Dan 9:11
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    11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even by departing, that they might not obey Your voice; therefore, the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

  • Ezra 10:44
    65%

    44 All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • 2 Chr 29:15
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    15 And they gathered their brethren, sanctified themselves, and came according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

  • Gal 2:12
    65%

    12 For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.