Nehemiah Chapter 13 verse 24 Holy Bible
and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
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And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.
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And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
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And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
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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.
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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.
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And of their sons, half are speaking Ashdoditish -- and are not knowing to speak Jewish -- and according to the language of people and people.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - Their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod. Some understand the writer to mean that half of the children in a family spoke the tongue of the father, and half that of the mother. But many of the best Hebraists prefer the sense expressed by our translators, viz., that all the children spoke a jargon half Ashdodite and half Aramaic. The Philistine language is said to have resembled the Egyptian (Hieronym., 'Comment. in Esaiam,' 19:18).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Half in the speech of Ashdod.--A mixture of Philistine and Aramaic.
