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Nehemiah 8:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Nehemiah 8:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.(A)
The Festival of Booths Celebrated
13 On the second day the heads of ancestral 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. 14 And they found it written in the law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the Israelites should live in booths[a] during the festival of the seventh month(B)
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- 8.14 Or tabernacles
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