Feast of Booths Celebrated

13 On the second day the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law.

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12 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
    but he who (A)hates reproof is (B)stupid.

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33 (A)Hear instruction and be wise,
    and do not neglect it.
34 (B)Blessed is the one who listens to me,
    watching daily at my gates,
    waiting beside my doors.

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The Value of Wisdom

(A)My son, (B)if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice (C)for understanding,
if you seek it like (D)silver
    and search for it as for (E)hidden treasures,
then (F)you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.
For (G)the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

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24 And (A)the Lord's servant[a] must not be quarrelsome but (B)kind to everyone, (C)able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents (D)with gentleness. God (E)may perhaps grant them repentance (F)leading to a knowledge of the truth,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 2:24 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

42 As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath.

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Peter and John Before the Council

And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and (A)the captain of the temple and (B)the Sadducees came upon them,

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32 They said to each other, (A)“Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he (B)opened to us the Scriptures?”

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47 (A)And he was teaching daily in the temple. (B)The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

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33 Now many saw them going and (A)recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 34 When he went ashore he (B)saw a great crowd, and (C)he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

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(A)Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites,[a] (B)helped the people to understand the Law, (C)while the people remained in their places. They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly,[b] and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 8:7 Vulgate; Hebrew and the Levites
  2. Nehemiah 8:8 Or with interpretation, or paragraph by paragraph

23 Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast (A)for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.

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