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Of Levi he said,

Let Your (A)Thummim and Your Urim belong to [a]Your (B)holy one,
(C)Whom You tested at Massah,
[b]With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;
(D)Who said of his father and his mother,
‘I did not consider them’;
And he did not recognize his brothers,
Nor did he know his own sons,
For (E)they kept Your word,
And they observed Your covenant.
10 (F)They shall [c]teach Your judgments to Jacob,
And Your law to Israel.
(G)They shall put incense [d]before You,
And (H)whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
11 O Yahweh, bless his substance,
And accept the work of his hands;
Crush the loins of those who rise up against him,
And those who hate him, so that they will not rise again.”

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  1. Deuteronomy 33:8 Lit him
  2. Deuteronomy 33:8 Or For
  3. Deuteronomy 33:10 Or instruct
  4. Deuteronomy 33:10 Lit in Your nostrils

Then in the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah, (A)to teach in the cities of Judah; and with them (B)the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. And they taught in Judah, having (C)the book of the law of Yahweh with them; and they went throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

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He also said to (A)the Levites who provided understanding to all Israel and who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; (B)it will be a burden on your shoulders no longer. Now serve Yahweh your God and His people Israel.

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Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, were providing understanding of the law to the people while the people stood in their place. They read from the book, from the law of God, [a]explaining and [b]giving insight, and they provided understanding of the reading.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 8:8 Or translating
  2. Nehemiah 8:8 Or giving the sense