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because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turneth the reviling into a blessing.
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread The same reason is given, and what follows in this verse is observed in ( Deuteronomy 23:4Deuteronomy 23:5 ) ; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 23:4) (See Gill on Deuteronomy 23:5).
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On that day there was read in the book of Moses, in the ears of the people, and it hath been found written in it that an Ammonite and Moabite doth not come into the assembly of God -- unto the age,
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because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turneth the reviling into a blessing.
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And it cometh to pass, at their hearing the law, that they separate all the mixed people from Israel.
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And before this Eliashib the priest, appointed over chambers of the house of our God, [is] a relation of Tobiah,
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and he maketh for him a great chamber, and there they were formerly putting the present, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, the new wine, and the oil -- the commanded thing of the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers -- and the heave-offering of the priests.
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain.