“and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.”

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.