And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers; and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.
Nehemiah 13:3 - 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. 更多版本King 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. English Standard Version 2016 As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent. |
And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers; and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons; and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this transgression.
And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.
And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
And a mixed multitude without number went up also with them, sheep and herds and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.
Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, (the children of Israel also being joined with them,) and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.