3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)It was the honour of Israel, and the greatest preservation of their holiness, that they were a peculiar people, and were so to keep themselves, and not to mingle with the nations, nor suffer any of them to incorporate with them. Now here we have, I. The law to this purport, which happened to be read on that day, in the audience of the people (Neh. 13:1), on the day of the dedication of the wall, a…
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