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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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when they.
that they.
the mixed.
 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.