Nehemiah 13:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

On that day: i.e. of which he is about to write.

the book of Moses. See App-47.

was found written. they came to the place or passage (viz. Deuteronomy 23:3-6). Not. discovery, but in the course of the public reading (as in Luke 4:17). Compare Nehemiah 8:14.

Moabite (masc). This did not therefore exclude Ruth,. female, though married to Mahlon before Boaz.

congregation. assembly, or muster.

God. Hebrew. Elohim. (withArt.). the [true] God. App-4.

Nehemiah 13:1

1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;