Verse 38
Nehemiah 9:38
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And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and...
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And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesti...
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And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the la...
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Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani took their places on...
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Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahia...
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You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies,...
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You are the Lord, the God (Elohim), who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Ch...
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8
You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaa...
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9
And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;
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10
And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for yo...
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11
By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who...
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12
And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them...
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13
And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisio...
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And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand o...
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And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for...
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But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orde...
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And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their ne...
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Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God (Elohim) who took...
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Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud stil...
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And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouth...
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21
Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; t...
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22
And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so th...
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And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land,...
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So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the...
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And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things,...
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But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and pu...
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And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of th...
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But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their hat...
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And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hea...
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Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prop...
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31
Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you...
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32
And now, our God (Elohim), the great, the strong, the God (Elohim) who is to be feared, who keeps fa...
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But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us,...
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34
And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to...
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For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and...
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Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce...
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And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have...
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And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our...