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               COMMENT:  What  they  did  had  been  done  in  ignorance  and  YEHOVAH
               showed His great mercy when they paid the high divorce price in repentance.
               There was no idol worship committed in this case.


               9. Is there a limitation mentioned in Nehemiah 13:23?


               COMMENT: We read of a limitation as to who had married whom. “In those
               days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of
               Moab”. The accounts in Ezra and Nehemiah have “Ammonites and Moabites”
               in  common  as  being  those  from  whom  wives  were  taken.  These  were  de-
               scended  from  Lot,  and  thus  they  were  of  kindred  Semitic  stock.  There  are
               other  indications  in  the  Old  Testament  about  wives  being  taken  from  other
               Semitic stock in this manner. The male side of Ammon and Moab are perma-
               nently condemned.


               NOTES: The reference to Ashdod is obscure. The LXX (Septuagint) gives this
               word as Azotia, a word that is hard to trace in terms of word meanings and
               identity. The word “Ashdod” may refer to part-Israelites living there in that Phil-
               istine city.

               10. Is another difficulty is found in Nehemiah 13:1?


               COMMENT: This of course appears to conflict with the “tenth generation” fac-
               tor as mentioned above, but when  we  look into the differences between “for
               ever”, “for ever and ever” and “for all generations”, we can see that the Moab-
               ite women were banned for a single “for ever” time period, and so this does
               not conflict with the “ten generations. The Moabite and Ammonite males were
               banned for all time.

               The Unforgivable Sin


               From Adam to Abraham, Adam’s pure line contained the breath of life.


               1. See Genesis 2:7 and Job 33:4.

               COMMENT: So where did the people come from who did not have the breath
               of life?


               2. Did these men and women originated from Genesis 1:27?


               COMMENT:  Through  misgenerative  activity,  pollution  was  introduced  to  the
               bloodstream of the sons of Adam through marrying the pre-Adamic peoples in
               the land, and we find that YEHOVAH God sought to eliminate the products of
               such activity.



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