◄ Nehemiah 13:24 ►
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Good News Translation
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or some other language and didn't know how to speak our language.

New Revised Standard Version
and half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke the language of various peoples.

Contemporary English Version
About half of their children could not speak Hebrew--they spoke only the language of Ashdod or some other foreign language.

New American Bible
Of their children, half spoke the language of Ashdod, or of one of the other peoples, and none of them knew how to speak the language of Judah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.

could not speak.

Zephaniah 3:9 Because then I will restore to the people a chosen lip, that all may call upon the name of the Lord, and may serve him with one shoulder.

Context
Intermarriage Forbidden
23In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. 24And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.25And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:…
Cross References
Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Nehemiah 13:25
And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:

Nehemiah 13:23
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