Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 13:1-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 13 in context

Scripture Focus

1On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Nehemiah 13:1-3

Biblical Context

On hearing the law, they separated from the mixed multitude, including Ammonites and Moabites, from Israel’s assembly. They recalled how God turned Balaam’s curse into a blessing.

Neville's Inner Vision

Reading the law, Nehemiah shows us that the act of hearing is the turning point from scattered impulse to unified intention. The Ammonite and Moabite ban is not a history lesson about outsiders; it is a symbol of what you permit to enter your inner house. The page tells you that the people did not feed them bread and water, and that is the inner famine produced by thoughts that do not nourish your true nature. When Balaam is invoked to curse them, it represents every fear and limiting belief that would disrupt your harmony. Yet God turns the curse into blessing, a reminder that your imaginative act can alter conditions by aligning with the I AM that you truly are. So, when the law is read and the 'mixed multitude' is separated from the congregation, it signals a decisive inward boundary: you choose to keep your consciousness free from thoughts that would distort your covenant with God within. Your state of awareness becomes the holy assembly where blessings flow rather than curses.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and affirm: I am the law of my own consciousness; I separate from all foreign thoughts and keep my inner congregation pure. Feel the relief as you realize that the 'curse' can be turned into blessing by the steady reverence of the I AM.