pSee Deut. 23:3-5
Genesis 19:37-38
37The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. ▼▼ Moab sounds like the Hebrew for from father
bHe is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. ▼▼ Ben-ammi means son of my people
dHe is the father of the Ammonites to this day. Deuteronomy 23:3-6
3 e“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever, 4 fbecause they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they ghired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of hMesopotamia, to curse you. 5But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned ithe curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you. 6You jshall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.Nehemiah 4:3
3 kTobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building— lif a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”Nehemiah 4:7
7 ▼▼Ch 4:1 in Hebrew
But when nSanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. Nehemiah 13:1
Nehemiah’s Final Reforms
1On that day othey read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written pthat no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
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