1. At that time, when the book of Moses was being read in the hearing of the people, it was found written there: “No Ammonite or Moabite may ever be admitted into the assembly of God;
2. for they did not meet the Israelites with food and water, but they hired Balaam to curse them, though our God turned the curse into a blessing.”
3. When they had heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent from Israel.
4. Before this, the priest Eliashib, who had been placed in charge of the chambers of the house of our God and who was an associate of Tobiah,