• Nehemiah 9:29
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 29 Although you would warn them so as to bring them back to your Law, they behaved presumptuously and refused to listen to your commandments;+ and they sinned against your regulations, by which a man will live if he observes them.+ But they stubbornly turned their back and stiffened their neck, and they refused to listen.

  • Nehemiah 9:29
    The Bible in Living English

    • 29 And you testified to them to bring them back to your code; but they were headstrong and did not listen to your commands and sinned against your laws, which men should conform to and have life by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened up their necks and did not listen.

  • Nehemiah 9:29
    American Standard Version

    • 29 and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • Nehemiah 9:29
    King James Version

    • 29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.