Nehemiah 13:4-9 (New International Version)
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Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms1 of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah,2
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and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes3 of grain, new wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.
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But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes4 king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission
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and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib5 had done in providing Tobiah6 a room in the courts of the house of God.
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I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah's household goods out of the room.7
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I gave orders to purify the rooms,8 and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.9
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