Nehemiah 13:29
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New International Version (©2011)
Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Remember them, O my God, for they have defiled the priesthood and the solemn vows of the priests and Levites.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the descendants of Levi.

NET Bible (©2006)
Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[Nehemiah prayed,] "Remember them, my God, because they have contaminated the priestly office and the promise you made to the priests and Levites."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

American King James Version
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

American Standard Version
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.

Darby Bible Translation
Remember them, my God, for they are polluters of the priesthood, and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites!

English Revised Version
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Webster's Bible Translation
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

World English Bible
Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Young's Literal Translation
Be mindful of them, O my God, for the redeemed of the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:23-31 If either parent be ungodly, corrupt nature will incline the children to take after that one; which is a strong reason why Christians should not be unequally yoked. In the education of children, great care should be taken about the government of their tongues; that they learn not the language of Ashdod, no impious or impure talk, no corrupt communication. Nehemiah showed the evil of these marriages. Some, more obstinate than the rest, he smote, that is, ordered them to be beaten by the officers according to the law, De 25:2,3. Here are Nehemiah's prayers on this occasion He prays, Remember them, O my God. Lord, convince and convert them; put them in mind of what they should be and do. The best services to the public have been forgotten by those for whom they were done, therefore Nehemiah refers himself to God, to recompense him. This may well be the summary of our petitions; we need no more to make us happy than this; Remember me, O my God, for good. We may humbly hope that the Lord will remember us and our services, although, after lives of unwearied activity and usefulness, we shall still see cause to abhor ourselves and repent in dust and ashes, and to cry out with Nehemiah, Spare me, O my God, according to the greatness of they mercy.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 29. - They have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. We look in vain for any distinct "covenant" which the priestly order broke by allying itself with the heathen, or indeed for any special law forbidding the priests to take heathen wives, which was not equally binding upon laymen. But Nehemiah feels that every sin is worse in a priest than in one who is not a priest; that a priest who contracts a pollution "pollutes the priesthood;" and that there is a tacit covenant by which priests and Levites bind themselves to holiness of life more absolutely and definitely than others.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Remember them, O my God,.... The priests, and punish them: because they have defiled the priesthood; by marrying strange wives, and rendering themselves unfit to officiate in it:

and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites; made with Levi, Aaron, and Phinehas, see Numbers 24:11, of the corruption of which, complaint is made, Malachi 2:4.

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Intermarriage Forbidden
…28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. 29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. 30Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

Numbers 25:13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."
Nehemiah 6:14 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophet Noadiah and how she and the rest of the prophets have been trying to intimidate me.
Malachi 2:4 And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi may continue," says the LORD Almighty.
Malachi 2:8 But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi," says the LORD Almighty.