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Nehemiah 8:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook,

    2/2016, p. 3

  • Publications Index

    mwb16.02 3;

    ad 626; ep 14

Nehemiah 8:2

Footnotes

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    8:2 Lit. understand by hearing

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    10/15/1998, p. 20

  • Publications Index

    w98 10/15 20;

    ad 1623; ep 14

Nehemiah 8:3

Footnotes

  • *

    8:3 Lit. read in it or read by it

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    8:3 Lit. from the light to

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    8:3 Lit. and the ears of all the people were toward the

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    10/15/2013, pp. 21-22

  • Publications Index

    w13 10/15 21-22;

    ep 14

Nehemiah 8:4

Footnotes

  • *

    8:4 Lit. wooden tower which they had made for

Nehemiah 8:5

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ep 14

Nehemiah 8:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 215-216

    The Watchtower,

    8/15/1962, pp. 508-510

  • Publications Index

    it-1 216;

    ad 163; w62 509

Nehemiah 8:7

Footnotes

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    8:7 Lit. were on their standing

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1138

  • Publications Index

    it-2 1138;

    ad 1623

Nehemiah 8:8

Footnotes

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    8:8, 8:18 Lit. read in or read by

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Enjoy Life Forever!, lesson 10

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 145, 1070

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2006, p. 11

    5/15/1996, p. 16

    2/15/1986, p. 26

    4/1/1973, pp. 203-204, 205-206

    10/15/1950, pp. 384-385

    7/1/1950, pp. 206-207

    “All Scripture,” p. 89

  • Publications Index

    lff lesson 10; it-1 145, 1070; w06 2/1 11; w96 5/15 16; si 89; w86 2/15 26;

    w73 204, 206; ad 104, 738; w50 207, 384; ep 14, 26, 50, 180

Nehemiah 8:9

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    8:9 Codd. And Nehemiah (he was the Tarshata) and Priest Var. And Nehemiah said, and Priest and Scribe ʽEzra and the Levites expounded to the people and said to all the people Var. And the Tarshata said to Priest and Scribe ʽEzra and the Levites who were expounding to the people, for everybody, Conj. And Priest ʽEzra without mention of Nehemiah

Nehemiah 8:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 814

    The Watchtower,

    10/15/2013, p. 22

    12/15/2008, p. 32

    10/15/1998, p. 20

    1/15/1995, p. 11

    9/1/1994, pp. 13-14

    3/15/1992, p. 19

    2/15/1980, pp. 18-19

    8/1/1973, p. 460

    3/15/1972, pp. 190-191

    6/1/1965, pp. 330-332

    10/1/1964, pp. 598-599

    2/15/1961, pp. 114-115

    11/15/1957, p. 703

    6/15/1951, pp. 374-375

  • Publications Index

    it-1 814; w13 10/15 22; w08 12/15 32; w98 10/15 20; w95 1/15 11; w94 9/1 14; w92 3/15 19;

    w80 2/15 18; w73 460; w72 190-191; ad 568; w65 331; w64 599; bf 350; w61 115; w57 703; nh 324; w51 374; w47 215

Nehemiah 8:12

Footnotes

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    8:12 Lit. that they gave them

Nehemiah 8:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    10/15/1998, pp. 20-21

  • Publications Index

    w98 10/15 20-21

Nehemiah 8:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 822

  • Publications Index

    it-1 822;

    mg63 85

Nehemiah 8:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 822

  • Publications Index

    it-1 822;

    w37 109; w33 230; pp 26

Nehemiah 8:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 822

  • Publications Index

    it-1 822;

    ad 575

Nehemiah 8:17

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    mg63 85

Nehemiah 8:18

Footnotes

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    8:18 Var. they read

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The Bible in Living English
Nehemiah 8:1-18

Nehemiah

8 and all the people to a man came together in the square before the Water Gate and told ʽEzra the scribe to bring the book of Moses’s code which Jehovah had enjoined on Israel. 2* And Priest ʽEzra brought the code before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month, 3*** and read from it at the front of the square before the Water Gate from the first daylight to midday before the men and women and those who could understand, and all the people gave their ears to the book of the code. 4* And ʽEzra the scribe stood on a wooden platform erected for the occasion, and beside him stood Mattithiah and Shemaʽ and ʽAnajah and ʽAzariah and Urijah and Hilkijah and Maʽasejah on his right, and on his left Pedajah and Mishael and Malkijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zecariah, Meshullam; 5 and ʽEzra the scribe opened the book before the eyes of all the people, because he was above all the people; and when he opened it all the people were standing; 6 and ʽEzra blessed Jehovah, the great God, and all the people answered “Amen,” “Amen,” holding up their hands, and did reverence to Jehovah with faces bowed to the ground. 7* And Jeshuaʽ and Bani and Sherebiah, Jamin, ʽAkkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maʽasejah, Kelita, ʽAzariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelajah, the Levites, expounded the code to the people, while the people stood in their places. 8* And he read from the book of God’s code by sections, bringing out the sense, and they expounded the text.

9* And the Tarshata and Priest ʽEzra the scribe and the Levites who were expounding to the people said to all the people “The day is sacred to your God Jehovah; do not mourn nor weep”—for all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the code. 10 And he said to them “Go, eat rich food and drink sweet drinks and send helpings to anybody who has nothing ready, because the day is sacred to our Lord, and do not be melancholy, for Jehovah’s glee is your security”; 11 and the Levites silenced all the people, saying “Hush, because the day is sacred, and do not be melancholy.” 12* And all the people went off to eat and drink and send out helpings and to hold a great merrymaking, because they understood the notifications that were given them.

13 And on the second day the heads of families of all the people, the priests, and the Levites came together to Priest ʽEzra for information on the points of the code, 14 and they found it written in the code that Jehovah had prescribed through Moses that the sons of Israel were to live in booths during the feast in the seventh month, 15 and that they were to give out and have the announcement made in all the cities and in Jerusalem “Go out to the mountain and bring in foliage of olive-trees and of wild olive and of myrtles and of palm trees and of leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.” 16 And the people went out and brought in, and made themselves booths on their own roofs and in their yards and in the courts of God’s house and in Water Gate Square and in Ephraim Gate Square; 17 and all the assembly, those that had come back from the foreign servitude, made booths and lived in the booths. For the sons of Israel had never done so since the days of Joshuaʽ the son of Nun until that day. And there was a very great merrymaking. 18* And he read from the book of God’s code day by day, from the first day to the last day; and they held a feast for seven days, and on the eighth day there was a holiday, in due form.

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