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COMMENT: What they did had been done in ignorance and YEHOVAH
showed His great mercy when they paid the high divorce price in repentance.
There was no idol worship committed in this case.

9. Is there a limitation mentioned in Nehemiah 13:23?

COMMENT: We read of a limitation as to who had married whom. “In those
days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of
Moab”. The accounts in Ezra and Nehemiah have “Ammonites and Moabites”
in common as being those from whom wives were taken. These were de-
scended from Lot, and thus they were of kindred Semitic stock. There are
other indications in the Old Testament about wives being taken from other
Semitic stock in this manner. The male side of Ammon and Moab are perma-
nently condemned.

NOTES: The reference to Ashdod is obscure. The LXX (Septuagint) gives this
word as Azotia, a word that is hard to trace in terms of word meanings and
identity. The word “Ashdod” may refer to part-Israelites living there in that Phil-
istine city.

10. Is another difficulty is found in Nehemiah 13:1?

COMMENT: This of course appears to conflict with the “tenth generation” fac-
tor as mentioned above, but when we look into the differences between “for
ever”, “for ever and ever” and “for all generations”, we can see that the Moab-
ite women were banned for a single “for ever” time period, and so this does
not conflict with the “ten generations. The Moabite and Ammonite males were
banned for all time.

The Unforgivable Sin

From Adam to Abraham, Adam’s pure line contained the breath of life.

1. See Genesis 2:7 and Job 33:4.

COMMENT: So where did the people come from who did not have the breath
of life?

2. Did these men and women originated from Genesis 1:27?

COMMENT: Through misgenerative activity, pollution was introduced to the
bloodstream of the sons of Adam through marrying the pre-Adamic peoples in
the land, and we find that YEHOVAH God sought to eliminate the products of
such activity.

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