 records the Israelites' request for safe passage and supplies through the land of the Moabites and the Moabites' refusal to "meet them with bread and water" is recalled in .Their exclusion from the Israelite congregation, "to their tenth generation, shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever", is best understood to mean not only to the tenth generation, but for ever; and this law was understood as in force in Nehemiah's time, which was more than ten generations from the occupation of Canaan.The text of was read in when the post-exilic temple was rededicated.