Nehemiah 13:1
Good News Translation
When the Law of Moses was being read aloud to the people, they came to the passage that said that no Ammonite or Moabite was ever to be permitted to join God's people.

New Revised Standard Version
On that day they read from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

Contemporary English Version
On that day when the Law of Moses was read aloud to everyone, it was discovered that Ammonites and Moabites were forbidden to belong to the people of God.

New American Bible
At that time, when the book of Moses was being read in the hearing of the people, it was found written there: “No Ammonite or Moabite may ever be admitted into the assembly of God;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:

that day.

they read.

Nehemiah 8:3-8 And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book. . . .

Nehemiah 9:3 And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they confessed, and adored the Lord their God.

Deuteronomy 31:11,12 When all Israel come together, to appear in the sight of the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read the words of this law before all Israel, in their hearing. . . .

2 Kings 23:2 And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both little and great: and in the hearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.

Isaiah 34:16 Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

Luke 4:16-19 And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day: and he rose up to read. . . .

Luke 10:26 But he said to him: What is written in the law? How readest thou?

Acts 13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation to make to the people, speak.

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him in the synagogues, where he is read every sabbath.

audience.

Nehemiah 13:23 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Deuteronomy 23:3-5 The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever: . . .

Isaiah 15:1-16:14 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent. . . .

Jeremiah 48:1-47 Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled. . . .

Ezekiel 25:1-11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

Amos 2:1-3 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes. . . .

Moabite.

Nehemiah 2:10,19 And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel. . . .

Nehemiah 4:3 Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.

Psalm 83:7-9 Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre. . . .

Jeremiah 49:1-6 Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities? . . .

Amos 1:13-15 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge his border. . . .

Context
Foreigners Excluded
1And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:3
The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Nehemiah 9:3
And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they confessed, and adored the Lord their God.

Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Nehemiah 12:47
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