1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and there was found written in it that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
2 because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and with water, and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into blessing.
3 And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, who had the oversight of the chambers of the house of our God a kinsman of Tobijah,