Verse 38
Nehemiah 9:38
Geneva Bible
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Now because of all this we make a sure couenant, and write it, and our princes, our Leuites and our Priestes seale vnto it.
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Chapter 9 Context
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In the foure and twentieth day of this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, an...
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(And they that were of the seede of Israel were separated from all the strangers) and they stoode an...
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And they stood vp in their place and read in the booke of the Lawe of the Lord their GOD foure times...
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Then stoode vp vpon the staires of the Leuites Ieshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebia...
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And the Leuites said, euen Ieshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodiiah, Shebaniah and P...
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Thou art Lord alone: thou hast made heauen, and the heauen of all heauens, with all their hoste, the...
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Thou art, O Lord, the God (Elohim), that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of Vr in Caldea,...
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And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede...
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Thou hast also considered the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the red Sea...
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And shewed tokens and wonders vpon Pharaoh, and on all his seruants, and on all the people of his la...
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For thou didest breake vp the Sea before them, and they went through the middes of the Sea on dry la...
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And leddest them in the day with a pillar of a cloude, and in the night with a pillar of fire to giu...
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Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iu...
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And declaredst vnto them thine holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, and ordinances, and lawe...
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And gauest them bread from heauen for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the r...
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But they and our fathers behaued them selues proudely, and hardened their neck, so that they hearken...
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But refused to obey, and would not remember thy marueilous works that thou haddest done for them, bu...
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Moreouer, when they made them a molten calfe (and said, This is thy God (Elohim) that brought thee v...
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Yet thou for thy great mercies forsookest them not in the wildernesse: the pillar of the cloude depa...
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Thou gauest also thy good Spirite to instruct them, and withheldest not thy MAN from their mouth, an...
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Thou didest also feede them fourtie yeres in ye wildernes: they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed...
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And thou gauest them kingdomes and people, and scatteredst them into corners: so they possessed the...
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And thou diddest multiplie their children, like the starres of the heauen, and broughtest them into...
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So the children went in, and possessed the lande, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of...
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And they tooke their strong cities and the fat lande, and possessed houses, full of all goods, ciste...
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Yet they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Lawe behinde their backes, and sl...
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Therefore thou deliueredst them into the hande of their enemies that vexed them: yet in the time of...
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But when they had rest, they returned to doe euill before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the h...
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And protestedst among them that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy Lawe: but they behaued them...
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Yet thou diddest forbeare them many yeeres, and protestedst among them by thy Spirite, euen by the h...
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Yet for thy great mercies thou hast not consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a graciou...
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Nowe therefore our God (Elohim), thou great God (Elohim), mightie and terrible, that keepest couenan...
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Surely thou art iust in all that is come vpon vs: for thou hast dealt truely, but we haue done wicke...
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And our kings and our princes, our Priests and our fathers haue not done thy Lawe, nor regarded thy...
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And they haue not serued thee in their kingdome, and in thy great goodnesse that thou shewedst vnto...
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Beholde, we are seruants this day, and the lande that thou gauest vnto our fathers, to eate the frui...
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And it yeeldeth much fruit vnto the kings whom thou hast set ouer vs, because of our sinnes: and the...
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Now because of all this we make a sure couenant, and write it, and our princes, our Leuites and our...