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13 On that day, when the book of Moses was being read aloud to the people, it was found written that the Ammonite and the Moabite were never to enter God’s assembly, 2 because they had not met the Israelites with bread and water, but had hired Balaam to curse them--though our God turned the curse into a blessing. 3 So, on hearing the law, they excommunicated all the mob of aliens from Israel.
4 Before that, Eliashib the priest, who was in charge of the chambers of the house of our God, and who was connected with Tobiah, 5 had prepared a large chamber for Tobiah, in which formerly it had been the custom to place the cereal-offerings, the frankincense, the utensils, and the tithes of corn, new wine, and oil, assigned as dues to the Levites, the singers, and the warders, as well as the offerings for the priests. 6 I was not at Jerusalem then, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had gone back to the king, at the end of the time for which I had asked leave of the king. 7 But when I reached Jerusalem again and noted the evil done by Eliashib in preparing a chamber for Tobiah within the courts of the house of God, 8 I was deeply hurt; I threw all Tobiah’s belongings out of the chamber, and ordered the chambers to be purified. 9 Then I brought back the utensils of the house of God, with the cereal-offering and the frankincense.
10 I also learned that the Levites had not been given their provisions, and had retired, with the singers who were on duty, each to his own field. 11 Then I confronted the deputies; I said, “Why is the house of God being neglected?” And I collected the Levites, and put them in their place again. 12 All Judah brought in the tithe of corn, new wine, and oil, to the storerooms, 13 and in charge of the storerooms I appointed as treasurers Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe and Pedaiah from the Levites, assisted by Hanan the son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, who were reckoned reliable men; their duty was to distribute the tithe among their fellows. 14 My God, remember this to my credit; forget not the good service I have done to the house of my God and its rites!
15 In those days I saw some people in Judah treading the winepress on the sabbath, and carrying in corn loaded on asses, with wine, grapes, figs, and all manner of loads, which they brought to Jerusalem on the sabbath day. 16 I protested, on the day when they sold their provisions. Tyrians also resided in Jerusalem, who brought in fish and all manner of produce, which they sold on the sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem. 17 So I confronted the authorities of Judah. I said to them, “What evil is this you are doing, profaning the sabbath day? 18 Did not your fathers do so, till our God brought all this evil on us and on this city? And yet you are bringing fresh wrath on Israel by profaning the sabbath!”
19 So when darkness began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, before the sabbath, I ordered the gates to be shut, and ordered that they were not to be opened till after the sabbath, placing some of my retinue at the gates to see that no load was brought in on the sabbath day. 20 For one or two sabbaths the traders and dealers in all manner of wares trafficked outside Jerusalem. 21 But I protested. I said to them, “Why are you remaining about the walls? If you do it again, I will punish you.” From that moment they never came again on the sabbath. 22 Then I ordered the Levites to purify themselves and come to keep the gates, that the sabbath might be hallowed. My God, remember this also to my credit, and spare me in thine own great goodness!
23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab; 24 their children spoke half in the tongue of Ashdod, they could not speak Jewish, but only one or other of these tongues. 25 I confronted them and cursed them; I struck some, pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not marry their daughters to the sons of foreigners, nor marry their sons to their daughters, nor marry foreigners themselves. 26 “Was not this the sin of Solomon king of Israel? There was no king like him in all the nations; he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet even he was led into sin by his foreign wives. 27 And is it to be thought of that you should do this great evil and break faith with our God by marrying foreign wives?” 28 One of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliashib, the high-priest, had married the daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, and I drove him from my presence. 29 Remember it against them, O my God, their corrupting of the priesthood and of the compact binding priesthood and Levites!
30 Thus I purified them from everything foreign, and I arranged the duties of the priests and Levites, his task for each, 31 and arranged for the offering of wood at the times fixed, and for the first-fruits. My God, remember it to my credit!