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Nehemiah 13

Neh. 13:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Now it came to pass, when they had heard
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
the law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
, that they separated
badal (Hebrew #914)
to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
KJV usage: (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out), X utterly.
Pronounce: baw-dal'
Origin: a primitive root
p from Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
all the mixed multitude
`ereb (Hebrew #6154)
from 6148; the web (or transverse threads of cloth); also a mixture, (or mongrel race)
KJV usage: Arabia, mingled people, mixed (multitude), woof.
Pronounce: ay'-reb
Origin: or mereb (1 Kings 10:15), (with the article prefix), {eh'-reb}
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Neh. 9:2• 2And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. (Neh. 9:2)

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Israel,
Law,
Mixed Multitude

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Ministry on This Verse

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when they.
Psa. 19:7‑11• 7The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
 8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
 9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
 10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
 11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psa. 19:7‑11)
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Psa. 119:9,11• 9BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
 11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. (Psa. 119:9,11)
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Prov. 6:23• 23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: (Prov. 6:23)
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Rom. 3:20• 20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:20)
that they.
Neh. 9:2• 2And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. (Neh. 9:2)
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Neh. 10:28• 28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; (Neh. 10:28)
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Ezra 10:11• 11Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. (Ezra 10:11)
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James 1:27• 27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)
the mixed.
Ex. 12:38• 38And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. (Ex. 12:38)
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Num. 11:4• 4And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? (Num. 11:4)
• Again and again they had thus separated themselves (Ezra 10; Neh. 9:2, etc.), and again and again did "the holy seed" mingle "themselves with the people of those lands." In truth, then as now, alliance with the world was the most successful snare of Satan; and hence there has ever been need for vigilance and for the enforcement of the truth of separation unto God. (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 12:1-13:3” by E. Dennett)
• It was the mixed multitude that "fell a lusting" in the wilderness, and so became a hindrance and a curse to Israel; and ever since that day, whether in Israel or in the Church, they have been the source of almost all the evils that have afflicted the saints. (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 12:1-13:3” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.