and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,(A)

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The Lord, the God of heaven,(A) who took me from my father’s house and from my native land,(B) who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’[a](C)—he will send his angel before you,(D) and you can take a wife for my son from there.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:7 Lit seed

This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: “The Lord, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.(A)

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Nehemiah’s Prayer

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying(A) before the God of the heavens.(B)

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26 Give thanks to the God of heaven!(A)
His faithful love endures forever.

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18 urging them to ask the God of the heavens(A) for mercy(B) concerning this mystery, so Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men.(C)

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