Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
Nehemiah 13:3 - American Standard Version 2015 And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When [the Jews] heard the law, they separated from Israel all who were of foreign descent. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. Common English Bible When the people heard this law, they separated out from Israel all those of mixed descent. Catholic Public Domain Version Now it happened that, when they had heard the law, they separated every foreigner from Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel. |
Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one that had knowledge, and understanding;
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Thy word have I laid up in my heart,\par\tab That I might not sin against thee.
{\b BETH.}\par\par\tab Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way?\par\tab By taking heed {\i thereto} according to thy word.
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;\par\tab And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law {\i cometh} the knowledge of sin.\par
Pure religion and undefiled before {\i our} God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {\i and} to keep oneself unspotted from the world.\par