Nehemiah 8:9
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This Day Is Holy
9 And Nehemiah, who was (A)the governor, and Ezra (B)the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, (C)“This day is holy to the Lord your God; (D)do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
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Nehemiah 7:70
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70 Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The (A)governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics[a] of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests' garments and 500 minas[b] of silver.[c]
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- Nehemiah 7:70 A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
- Nehemiah 7:70 A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
- Nehemiah 7:70 Probable reading; Hebrew lacks minas of silver
Nehemiah 7:65
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65 (A)The (B)governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.
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Nehemiah 8:2
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2 So Ezra the priest (A)brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, (B)on the first day of the seventh month.
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Deuteronomy 12:12
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12 And (A)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since (B)he has no portion or inheritance with you.
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Deuteronomy 12:7
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7 And (A)there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and (B)you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
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Ecclesiastes 3:4
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Nehemiah 10:1
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The People Who Sealed the Covenant
10 [a] (A)“On the seals are the names of[b] Nehemiah (B)the governor, (C)the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah,
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- Nehemiah 10:1 Ch 10:2 in Hebrew
- Nehemiah 10:1 Hebrew lacks the names of
Ezra 2:63
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63 The (A)governor told them that they were not (B)to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult (C)Urim and Thummim.
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Deuteronomy 16:14-15
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14 (A)You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. 15 For (B)seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.
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Deuteronomy 16:11
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11 And (A)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.
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Leviticus 23:24
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24 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In (A)the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, (B)a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
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2 Corinthians 7:9-11
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9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but (A)because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.
10 For (B)godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas (C)worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, (D)what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
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Romans 7:9
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9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
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Romans 3:20
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20 For (A)by works of the law no human being[a] will be justified in his sight, since (B)through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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- Romans 3:20 Greek flesh
Malachi 2:13
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13 And this second thing you do. (A)You cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.
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Hosea 4:6
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6 My people are destroyed (A)for lack of knowledge;
(B)because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you (C)from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
(D)I also will forget your children.
Isaiah 61:3
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3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
(A)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
(B)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
(C)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, (D)that he may be glorified.[a]
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- Isaiah 61:3 Or that he may display his beauty
Nehemiah 12:26
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26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of (A)Nehemiah the governor and of (B)Ezra, the priest and scribe.
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Nehemiah 8:7-8
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7 (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. 8 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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- Nehemiah 8:7 Vulgate; Hebrew and the Levites
- Nehemiah 8:8 Or with interpretation, or paragraph by paragraph
Ezra 7:11
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11 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel:
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2 Chronicles 35:3
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3 And he said to the Levites (A)who taught all Israel and who were holy to the Lord, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel.
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2 Chronicles 34:21
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21 “Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is (A)the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
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2 Chronicles 34:19
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19 And when the king heard the words of the Law, (A)he tore his clothes.
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2 Chronicles 30:22
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22 And Hezekiah spoke (A)encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the Lord. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing (B)peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
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