and that whoever would not come within three days according to the counsel of the leaders and the elders, all his property would be forfeited, and he would be separated from the congregation of the exiles.
The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were written heads of the fathers and the priests until the reign of Darius the Persian.
And I contended with them, and put a curse on them, and struck some of them, and I plucked their hair. And I made them swear by the name of God, saying, If you shall give your daughters to their sons, or and if you take from their daughters to your sons and for yourselves.
And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard. And it grieved them greatly that a man had come to seek the good of the sons of Israel.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard, then they mocked us and despised us. And they said, What is this that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?
And Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests. And they built the Sheep Gate. They sanctified it and made stand its doors. Even to the Tower of Meah they sanctified it, to the Tower of Hananeel.