1. On that same day the Scroll of Moses was read out loud. All of the people heard it. It was written there that no one from Ammon or Moab should ever be allowed to become a member of the community of God.
2. That's because they hadn't given the people of Israel food and water. Instead, they had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. But our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3. When that law was read, the people of Judah obeyed it. They put out of Israel everyone who was from another nation.
4. The priest Eliashib had been put in charge of the storerooms in the house of our God. He had worked closely with Tobiah.