Nehemiah 13:3
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And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.

when they.

Psalm 19:7-11 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 119:9,11 By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. . . .

Proverbs 6:23 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

that they.

Nehemiah 9:2 And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.

Ezra 10:11 And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.

James 1:27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

the mixed.

Exodus 12:38 And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

Numbers 11:4 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Context
Foreigners Excluded
2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing. 3And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 12:38
And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

Ezra 9:2
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this transgression.

Nehemiah 9:2
And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

Nehemiah 10:28
And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.

Lexicon
As soon as
וַיְהִ֖י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

[the people] heard
כְּשָׁמְעָ֣ם (kə·šā·mə·‘ām)
Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8085: To hear intelligently

this law,
הַתּוֹרָ֑ה (hat·tō·w·rāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8451: Direction, instruction, law

they excluded
וַיַּבְדִּ֥ילוּ (way·yaḇ·dî·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 914: To be divided, separate

from Israel
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (mî·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

all
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

of foreign descent.
עֵ֖רֶב (‘ê·reḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6154: Arabia -- mixture, mixed company


Additional Translations
As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

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

And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they were separated, even every alien in Israel.

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

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

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

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

And it cometh to pass, at their hearing the law, that they separate all the mixed people from Israel.
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