Nehemiah:9-10
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Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting ,
and with sackcloths ,
and earth on them .
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And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers ,
and stood and confessed their sins ,
and the iniquities of their fathers .
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And they stood up in their place ,
and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day ;
and another fourth part they confessed ,
and worshipped the LORD their God .
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Then stood up on the stairs ,
of the Levites ,
Jeshua ,
and Bani ,
Kadmiel ,
Shebaniah ,
Bunni ,
Sherebiah ,
Bani ,
and Chenani ,
and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God .
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Then the Levites ,
Jeshua ,
and Kadmiel ,
Bani ,
Hashabniah ,
Sherebiah ,
Hodijah ,
Shebaniah ,
and Pethahiah ,
said ,
Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever :
and blessed be your glorious name ,
which is exalted above all blessing and praise .
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You ,
even you ,
are LORD alone ;
you have made heaven ,
the heaven of heavens ,
with all their host ,
the earth ,
and all things that are therein ,
the seas ,
and all that is therein ,
and you preserve them all ;
and the host of heaven worships you .
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You are the LORD the God ,
who did choose Abram ,
and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees ,
and gave him the name of Abraham ;
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And found his heart faithful before you ,
and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites ,
the Hittites ,
the Amorites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Jebusites ,
and the Girgashites ,
to give it ,
I say ,
to his seed ,
and have performed your words ;
for you are righteous :
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And did see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt ,
and heard their cry by the Red sea ;
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And showed signs and wonders on Pharaoh ,
and on all his servants ,
and on all the people of his land :
for you knew that they dealt proudly against them .
So did you get you a name ,
as it is this day .
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And you did divide the sea before them ,
so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land ;
and their persecutors you threw into the deeps ,
as a stone into the mighty waters .
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Moreover you led them in the day by a cloudy pillar ;
and in the night by a pillar of fire ,
to give them light in the way wherein they should go .
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You came down also on mount Sinai ,
and spoke with them from heaven ,
and gave them right judgments ,
and true laws ,
good statutes and commandments :
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And made known to them your holy sabbath ,
and commanded them precepts ,
statutes ,
and laws ,
by the hand of Moses your servant :
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And gave them bread from heaven for their hunger ,
and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst ,
and promised them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them .
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But they and our fathers dealt proudly ,
and hardened their necks ,
and listened not to your commandments ,
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And refused to obey ,
neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them ;
but hardened their necks ,
and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage :
but you are a God ready to pardon ,
gracious and merciful ,
slow to anger ,
and of great kindness ,
and forsook them not .
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Yes ,
when they had made them a molten calf ,
and said ,
This is your God that brought you up out of Egypt ,
and had worked great provocations ;
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Yet you in your manifold mercies forsook them not in the wilderness :
the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day ,
to lead them in the way ;
neither the pillar of fire by night ,
to show them light ,
and the way wherein they should go .
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You gave also your good spirit to instruct them ,
and withheld not your manna from their mouth ,
and gave them water for their thirst .
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Yes ,
forty years did you sustain them in the wilderness ,
so that they lacked nothing ;
their clothes waxed not old ,
and their feet swelled not .
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Moreover you gave them kingdoms and nations ,
and did divide them into corners :
so they possessed the land of Sihon ,
and the land of the king of Heshbon ,
and the land of Og king of Bashan .
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Their children also multiplied you as the stars of heaven ,
and brought them into the land ,
concerning which you had promised to their fathers ,
that they should go in to possess it .
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So the children went in and possessed the land ,
and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land ,
the Canaanites ,
and gave them into their hands ,
with their kings ,
and the people of the land ,
that they might do with them as they would .
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And they took strong cities ,
and a fat land ,
and possessed houses full of all goods ,
wells dig ,
vineyards ,
and olive groves ,
and fruit trees in abundance :
so they did eat ,
and were filled ,
and became fat ,
and delighted themselves in your great goodness .
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Nevertheless they were disobedient ,
and rebelled against you ,
and cast your law behind their backs ,
and slew your prophets which testified against them to turn them to you ,
and they worked great provocations .
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Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their enemies ,
who vexed them :
and in the time of their trouble ,
when they cried to you ,
you heard them from heaven ;
and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors ,
who saved them out of the hand of their enemies .
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But after they had rest ,
they did evil again before you :
therefore left you them in the land of their enemies ,
so that they had the dominion over them :
yet when they returned ,
and cried to you ,
you heard them from heaven ;
and many times did you deliver them according to your mercies ;
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And testified against them ,
that you might bring them again to your law :
yet they dealt proudly ,
and listened not to your commandments ,
but sinned against your judgments , (
which if a man do ,
he shall live in them ;)
and withdrew the shoulder ,
and hardened their neck ,
and would not hear .
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Yet many years did you forbear them ,
and testified against them by your spirit in your prophets :
yet would they not give ear :
therefore gave you them into the hand of the people of the lands .
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Nevertheless for your great mercies '
sake you did not utterly consume them ,
nor forsake them ;
for you are a gracious and merciful God .
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Now therefore ,
our God ,
the great ,
the mighty ,
and the terrible God ,
who keep covenant and mercy ,
let not all the trouble seem little before you ,
that has come on us ,
on our kings ,
on our princes ,
and on our priests ,
and on our prophets ,
and on our fathers ,
and on all your people ,
since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day .
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However ,
you are just in all that is brought on us ;
for you have done right ,
but we have done wickedly :
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Neither have our kings ,
our princes ,
our priests ,
nor our fathers ,
kept your law ,
nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies ,
with which you did testify against them .
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For they have not served you in their kingdom ,
and in your great goodness that you gave them ,
and in the large and fat land which you gave before them ,
neither turned they from their wicked works .
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Behold ,
we are servants this day ,
and for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof ,
behold ,
we are servants in it :
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And it yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins :
also they have dominion over our bodies ,
and over our cattle ,
at their pleasure ,
and we are in great distress .
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And because of all this we make a sure covenant ,
and write it ;
and our princes ,
Levites ,
and priests ,
seal to it .
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Now those that sealed were ,
Nehemiah ,
the Tirshatha ,
the son of Hachaliah ,
and Zidkijah ,
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Seraiah ,
Azariah ,
Jeremiah ,
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Pashur ,
Amariah ,
Malchijah ,
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Hattush ,
Shebaniah ,
Malluch ,
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Harim ,
Meremoth ,
Obadiah ,
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Daniel ,
Ginnethon ,
Baruch ,
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Meshullam ,
Abijah ,
Mijamin ,
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Maaziah ,
Bilgai ,
Shemaiah :
these were the priests .
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And the Levites :
both Jeshua the son of Azaniah ,
Binnui of the sons of Henadad ,
Kadmiel ;
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And their brothers ,
Shebaniah ,
Hodijah ,
Kelita ,
Pelaiah ,
Hanan ,
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Micha ,
Rehob ,
Hashabiah ,
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Zaccur ,
Sherebiah ,
Shebaniah ,
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Hodijah ,
Bani ,
Beninu .
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The chief of the people ;
Parosh ,
Pahathmoab ,
Elam ,
Zatthu ,
Bani ,
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Bunni ,
Azgad ,
Bebai ,
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Adonijah ,
Bigvai ,
Adin ,
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Ater ,
Hizkijah ,
Azzur ,
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Hodijah ,
Hashum ,
Bezai ,
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Hariph ,
Anathoth ,
Nebai ,
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Magpiash ,
Meshullam ,
Hezir ,
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Meshezabeel ,
Zadok ,
Jaddua ,
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Pelatiah ,
Hanan ,
Anaiah ,
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Hoshea ,
Hananiah ,
Hashub ,
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Hallohesh ,
Pileha ,
Shobek ,
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Rehum ,
Hashabnah ,
Maaseiah ,
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And Ahijah ,
Hanan ,
Anan ,
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Malluch ,
Harim ,
Baanah .
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And the rest of the people ,
the priests ,
the Levites ,
the porters ,
the singers ,
the Nethinims ,
and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God ,
their wives ,
their sons ,
and their daughters ,
every one having knowledge ,
and having understanding ;
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They joined to their brothers ,
their nobles ,
and entered into a curse ,
and into an oath ,
to walk in God '
law ,
which was given by Moses the servant of God ,
and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord ,
and his judgments and his statutes ;
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And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land ,
not take their daughters for our sons :
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And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell ,
that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath ,
or on the holy day :
and that we would leave the seventh year ,
and the exaction of every debt .
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Also we made ordinances for us ,
to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God ;
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For the show bread ,
and for the continual meat offering ,
and for the continual burnt offering ,
of the sabbaths ,
of the new moons ,
for the set feasts ,
and for the holy things ,
and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel ,
and for all the work of the house of our God .
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And we cast the lots among the priests ,
the Levites ,
and the people ,
for the wood offering ,
to bring it into the house of our God ,
after the houses of our fathers ,
at times appointed year by year ,
to burn on the altar of the LORD our God ,
as it is written in the law :
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And to bring the first fruits of our ground ,
and the first fruits of all fruit of all trees ,
year by year ,
to the house of the LORD :
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Also the firstborn of our sons ,
and of our cattle ,
as it is written in the law ,
and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks ,
to bring to the house of our God ,
to the priests that minister in the house of our God :
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And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough ,
and our offerings ,
and the fruit of all manner of trees ,
of wine and of oil ,
to the priests ,
to the chambers of the house of our God ;
and the tithes of our ground to the Levites ,
that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage .
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And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites ,
when the Levites take tithes :
and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God ,
to the chambers ,
into the treasure house .
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For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn ,
of the new wine ,
and the oil ,
to the chambers ,
where are the vessels of the sanctuary ,
and the priests that minister ,
and the porters ,
and the singers :
and we will not forsake the house of our God .
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And the rulers of the people dwelled at Jerusalem :
the rest of the people also cast lots ,
to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city ,
and nine parts to dwell in other cities .
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