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And I cast forth the vessels of the house of Tobias out of the storehouse. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I commanded and they cleansed the storehouses: and I brought thither again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense. </p> <a name="10" id="10"></a><p class="hdg">Tithes Restored<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../leviticus/27.htm#30">Leviticus 27:30-34</a>; <a href="../deuteronomy/14.htm#22">Deuteronomy 14:22-29</a>; <a href="../deuteronomy/26.htm">Deuteronomy 26:1-15</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: and that the Levites, and the singing men, and they that ministered were fled away every man to his own country: <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why have we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I made them to stand in their places. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil into the storehouses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And we set over the storehouses Selemias the priest, and Sadoc the scribe, and of the Levites Phadaia, and next to them Hanan the son of Zachur, the son of Mathania: for they were approved as faithful, and to them were committed the portions of their brethren. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my kindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his ceremonies. </p> <p class="hdg">The Sabbath Restored</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes, and figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day on which it was lawful to sell. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who brought fish, and all manner of wares: and they sold them on the sabbaths to the children of Juda in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day? <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Did not our fathers do these things, and our God brought all this evil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon Israel by violating the sabbath. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens on the sabbath day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem once or twice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. </p> <a name="23" id="23"></a><p class="hdg">Intermarriage Forbidden<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../ezra/9.htm">Ezra 9:1-4</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing? and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: m and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women? <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So I separated from them all strangers, and I appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites, every man in his ministry : <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And for the offering of wood at times appointed, and for the firstfruits: remember me, O my God, unto good. 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