World English Bible
Nehemiah 13:2
“because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.”
Verse in context — Nehemiah 13
1
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
2
because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3
It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
4
Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
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