Nehemiah 13:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁴ and 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ and 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak the Hebrew, but in the language of each people.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ and 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.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of various peoples; they couldn’t speak the language of Judah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ And their sons spoke partly in the speech of Ashdod, and they did not know how to speak the Jewish language, and they were speaking according to the language of one people or another.

Nehemiah 13:24 Cross References

Zephaniah 3:9

For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

Nehemiah 13:23

In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

Nehemiah 13:25

And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.