“I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 13 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.