“But in those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, etc. And now in the holy Church they marry foreign wives, whoever tarnishes his conscience with the pleasures of crimes, which properly belong to the pagans. And the children born from these do not know how to speak Jewish, as the deeds which arose fro…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah
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30Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
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28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
— Nehemiah 13:30 —
31And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.