because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them,(A) but our God turned the curse into a blessing.(B) When they heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent(C) from Israel.

Now before this, the priest Eliashib(D) had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God.(E) He was a relative[a] of Tobiah(F)

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