27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?’
28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.
29 Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
30 So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task.
31 I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits.Remember me with favour, my God.Footnotes for the Book of Nehemiaha 5 Or their Lord or the governorb 6 Or oldc 13 That is, about 450 metresd 15 Hebrew Shelah, a variant of Shiloah, that is, Siloame 16 Hebrew; Septuagint, some Vulgate manuscripts and Syriac tombf 18 Two Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 24); most Hebrew manuscripts Bavvaia 15 That is, about 460 gramsb 16 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac Ia 68 Some Hebrew manuscripts (see also Ezra 2:66); most Hebrew manuscripts do not have this verse.b 70 That is, about 8.4 kilogramsc 71 That is, about 170 kilograms; also in verse 72d 71 That is, about 1.2 metric tonse 72 That is, about 1.1 metric tonsa 5 Or God for ever and everb 9 Or the Sea of Reedsc 22 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts Sihon, that is, the country of thed 38 In Hebrew texts this verse (9:38) is numbered 10:1.a 14 Most Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew their