³ No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the Lord’s assembly;^(A) none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the Lord’s assembly.

Nehemiah’s Further Reforms

13 At that time^(A) the book of Moses^(B) was read publicly to^[a] the people.^(C) The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite^(D) should ever enter the assembly of God,^{(E) 2} because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them,^(F) but our God turned the curse into a blessing.^{(G) 3} When they heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent^(H) from Israel.

⁹ ‘This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter my sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.