The king went up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he (A)read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant (B)which had been found in the house of the Lord.

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Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, (A)“I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

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10 And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the (A)year of release, (B)at the Feast of Tabernacles, 11 when all Israel comes to (C)appear before the Lord your God in the (D)place which He chooses, (E)you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 (F)Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, 13 and that their children, (G)who have not known it, (H)may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”

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12 And I saw the dead, (A)small and great, standing before [a]God, (B)and books were opened. And another (C)book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged (D)according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 20:12 NU, M the throne

22 Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those (A)which the prophets and (B)Moses said would come—

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13 (A)He will bless those who fear the Lord,
Both small and great.

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19 The small and great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.

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And when these days were completed, the king made a feast lasting seven days for all the people who were present in [a]Shushan the [b]citadel, from great to small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 1:5 Or Susa
  2. Esther 1:5 palace

Principles of Separation(A)

13 On that day (B)they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people, and in it was found written (C)that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God,

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And they stood up in their place and (A)read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for one-fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.

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Ezra Reads and Explains the Law

Now all (A)the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was (B)in front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the (C)scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought (D)the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear with understanding (E)on the first day of the seventh month. Then he (F)read from it in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate [a]from morning until midday, before the men and women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.

So Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of wood which they had made for the purpose; and beside him, at his right hand, stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Urijah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah; and at his left hand Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people (G)stood up. And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God.

Then all the people (H)answered, “Amen, Amen!” while (I)lifting up their hands. And they (J)bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, (K)helped the people to understand the Law; and the people (L)stood in their place. So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading.

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  1. Nehemiah 8:3 Lit. from the light

(A)So they taught in Judah, and had the Book of the Law of the Lord with them; they went throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people.

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13 (A)and whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel (B)was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

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(A)Nothing was in the ark (B)except the two tablets of stone which Moses (C)put there at Horeb, (D)when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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and had taken captive the (A)women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way.

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So it was, after they had carried it away, that (A)the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction; and He struck the men of the city, both small and great, [a]and tumors broke out on them.

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  1. 1 Samuel 5:9 Vg. and they had tumors in their secret parts

26 “Take this Book of the Law, (A)and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there (B)as a witness against you;

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11 And they (A)struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.

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