Nehemiah 13:30
Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
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Barnes' Notes
The wards - Rather, “the offices or observances.” Nehemiah’s arrangement is probably that described in Neh 11:10-22.
We have here one instance more of Nehemiah's pious zeal for the purifying of his countrymen as a peculiar people to God; that was the thing he aimed at in the use of his power, not the enriching of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Nehemiah Summarizes his Work under the heads of purification and organization
cleansed I them i.e. the people of Israel.
all strangers R.V. marg. -Or, every strange thing". LXX. ἀπὸ πάσης…