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Nehemiah Chapter 8

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Nehemiah

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Nehemiah 8 records the people of Israel hearing the Law read aloud by Ezra, who restores the covenant promises and calls them to return to God’s worship. The chapter emphasizes the importance of obedience, repentance, and communal unity as the foundation of a restored nation.

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(1) And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
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Ezra 3:1Ezra 3:2Ezra 3:3Ezra 3:4Ezra 3:5Ezra 3:6Ezra 3:7Ezra 3:8Ezra 3:9Ezra 3:10Ezra 3:11Ezra 3:12

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Nehemiah 8:16Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Exodus 16:18

(2) And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
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Deuteronomy 17:18Deuteronomy 31:9Deuteronomy 31:10Malachi 2:7Deuteronomy 31:11Deuteronomy 31:12Deuteronomy 31:13II Chronicles 17:7II Chronicles 17:8II Chronicles 17:9Acts 15:21Isaiah 28:9

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Esther 3:7Genesis 8:4Leviticus 16:29Leviticus 23:24Numbers 29:1I Kings 8:2

(3) And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
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Luke 4:16Luke 4:17Luke 4:18Luke 4:19Luke 4:20Acts 13:15Acts 13:27Acts 15:21Acts 20:7Acts 20:11Acts 28:23Matthew 7:28

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Jeremiah 36:10Nehemiah 8:16Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2

(4) And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
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Nehemiah 10:25Nehemiah 11:5Nehemiah 10:3Nehemiah 10:18Ezra 10:33Nehemiah 10:7Nehemiah 10:20Nehemiah 11:7Nehemiah 12:13Ezra 10:29

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Leviticus 23:38I Kings 18:33II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15Ezra 7:11Nehemiah 11:7

(5) And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
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Luke 4:16Luke 4:17Judges 3:20I Kings 8:14

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Revelation 20:12Judges 3:25Ezekiel 33:22Ezekiel 46:1Luke 4:17Nehemiah 12:39

(6) And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
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I Chronicles 29:20II Chronicles 6:4Psalms 41:13Psalms 72:18Psalms 72:19Ephesians 1:3I Peter 1:3Nehemiah 5:13Jeremiah 28:6Matthew 6:13I Corinthians 14:16Genesis 14:22

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Psalms 41:13Psalms 72:19Psalms 89:52I Chronicles 29:20Romans 1:25II Chronicles 7:3

(7) Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
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Nehemiah 3:19Nehemiah 9:4Nehemiah 10:9Nehemiah 12:24Nehemiah 3:17Nehemiah 10:13Nehemiah 10:12Ezra 8:18Nehemiah 11:16Nehemiah 11:19Nehemiah 12:25Nehemiah 10:10

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Nehemiah 9:4Nehemiah 9:5Nehemiah 10:10Numbers 3:45II Chronicles 29:12II Chronicles 35:9

(8) So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
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Habakkuk 2:2Matthew 5:21Matthew 5:22Matthew 5:27Matthew 5:28Luke 24:27Luke 24:32Luke 24:45Acts 8:30Acts 8:31Acts 8:32Acts 8:33

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II Kings 22:8I Chronicles 29:29Nehemiah 8:3Revelation 22:19Colossians 4:16

(9) And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
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Nehemiah 7:65Nehemiah 7:70Nehemiah 10:1Ezra 2:63Ezra 7:11Nehemiah 8:7Nehemiah 8:8II Chronicles 15:3II Chronicles 30:22II Chronicles 35:3Hosea 4:6Nehemiah 8:2

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Ezekiel 24:23Numbers 3:45I Chronicles 24:6Nehemiah 8:13Nehemiah 10:38Nehemiah 12:47

(10) Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24Ecclesiastes 3:13Ecclesiastes 5:18Ecclesiastes 9:7I Timothy 6:17I Timothy 6:18Song of Solomon 5:1Deuteronomy 26:11Deuteronomy 26:12Deuteronomy 26:13Esther 9:19Esther 9:22

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Exodus 29:22Leviticus 3:9Leviticus 4:8Leviticus 4:31Leviticus 8:25II Corinthians 7:9

(11) So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
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Numbers 13:30

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Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38

(12) And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
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Psalms 126:1Psalms 126:2Psalms 126:3Nehemiah 8:7Nehemiah 8:8Job 23:12Psalms 19:8Psalms 19:9Psalms 19:10Psalms 19:11Psalms 119:14Psalms 119:16

(13) And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
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II Chronicles 30:23Proverbs 2:1Proverbs 2:2Proverbs 2:3Proverbs 2:4Proverbs 2:5Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 8:33Proverbs 8:34Proverbs 12:1Mark 6:33Mark 6:34

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Ezra 3:8Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32II Chronicles 24:5II Chronicles 24:11Nehemiah 8:1

(14) And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
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Leviticus 23:34Leviticus 23:40Leviticus 23:41Leviticus 23:42Leviticus 23:43Deuteronomy 16:13Deuteronomy 16:14Deuteronomy 16:15Zechariah 14:16Zechariah 14:17Zechariah 14:18Zechariah 14:19

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Esther 3:7I Kings 8:2Ezekiel 45:25I Kings 12:32Genesis 8:4Leviticus 16:29

(15) And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
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Leviticus 23:4Deuteronomy 16:16Judges 9:48Judges 9:49Matthew 21:1Leviticus 23:40Genesis 8:11John 12:13Revelation 7:9

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Exodus 25:35Exodus 37:21Exodus 25:32Exodus 37:18Ezekiel 19:11Leviticus 23:40

(16) So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
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Deuteronomy 22:8II Samuel 11:2Jeremiah 19:13Jeremiah 32:29II Chronicles 20:5II Chronicles 33:5Nehemiah 8:3Nehemiah 3:26Nehemiah 12:37Nehemiah 12:39II Kings 14:13

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 40:27

(17) And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
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John 1:14Hebrews 11:9Hebrews 11:13Joshua 1:1Hebrews 4:8II Chronicles 7:8II Chronicles 7:9II Chronicles 7:10II Chronicles 8:13Ezra 3:4II Chronicles 30:26II Chronicles 35:18

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Leviticus 23:42Ezekiel 16:53Ezekiel 3:15

(18) Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
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Deuteronomy 31:10Deuteronomy 31:11Deuteronomy 31:12Deuteronomy 31:13Leviticus 23:36Numbers 29:35John 7:37

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II Chronicles 7:9II Chronicles 8:13II Kings 22:8I Chronicles 29:29II Chronicles 34:21Revelation 22:19

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