Nehemiah 13:1–9

And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:

²Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing.

³And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.

⁴And over this thing was Eliasib the priest, who was set over the treasury of the house of our God, and was near akin to Tobias.

⁵And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.

⁶But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king, and after certain days I asked the king:

⁷And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliasib had done for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in the courts of the house of God.

⁸And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels of the house of Tobias out of the storehouse.

⁹And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.