Verse 38
Nehemiah 9:38
World Messianic Bible
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Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with...
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The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins...
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They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God (Elohim) a fourth...
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Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up o...
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Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahia...
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You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, th...
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You are Yahweh, the God (Elohim) who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him th...
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8
found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite,...
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9
“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
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and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the peop...
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11
You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; an...
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12
Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them l...
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13
“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances...
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and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by M...
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and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for th...
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16
“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
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and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened thei...
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18
Yes, when they had made themselves a molten calf, and said, ‘This is your God (Elohim) who brought y...
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yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t d...
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You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, an...
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21
“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t gr...
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Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they...
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23
You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concernin...
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“So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the...
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They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns d...
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“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, kill...
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Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of...
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But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hands of the...
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and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and...
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30
Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets...
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31
“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for yo...
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32
Now therefore, our God (Elohim), the great, the mighty, and the awesome God (Elohim), who keeps cove...
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However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly...
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Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to yo...
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For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in...
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“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit an...
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It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have p...
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Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our pries...