These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Nehemiah 1
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THE WORDS of the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,
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that Hanani, one of my brethren, came out of , he and certain men; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, that were left of the captivity, and concerning .
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And they said unto me: ‘The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach; the wall of also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.’
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Nehemiah 2:17 2 Kings 25:10 Nehemiah 2:13 Nehemiah 7:6 Nehemiah 2:3 Lamentations 5:1 Isaiah 43:28 Jeremiah 44:8-12 Isaiah 5:5 Isaiah 32:9-14 Ezra 2:1 Jeremiah 42:18 Lamentations 1:7 Jeremiah 29:18 Esther 1:1 Lamentations 3:61 Nehemiah 9:36-37 Nehemiah 11:3 1 Kings 9:7 Jeremiah 24:9 Jeremiah 52:14 Psalm 79:4 Psalm 44:11-14 Jeremiah 39:8 Ezra 5:8 Psalm 137:1-3 Isaiah 64:10-11 Jeremiah 5:10 - 4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the of ,
- 5 and said: ‘I beseech Thee, O , the of , the great and awful , that keepeth and with them that Him and keep His commandments;
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let Thine ear now be attentive, and Thine eyes open, that Thou mayest hearken unto the prayer of Thy , which I pray before Thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Thy servants, while I confess the sins of the children of , which we have sinned against Thee; yea, I and my father’s house have sinned.
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Daniel 9:20 2 Chronicles 29:6 Daniel 9:17-18 2 Chronicles 6:40 Psalm 106:6 Ephesians 2:3 Ezra 10:11 Luke 2:37 1 Timothy 5:5 Psalm 55:17 Lamentations 5:7 2 Chronicles 28:10 Ezra 9:6-7 Psalm 130:2 Isaiah 64:6-7 1 Samuel 15:11 1 Kings 8:28-29 Ezra 10:1 Isaiah 6:5 Lamentations 3:39-42 Psalm 34:15 Luke 18:7 Psalm 88:1 Daniel 9:4 2 Timothy 1:3 Psalm 32:5 1 John 1:9 -
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We have dealt very corruptly against Thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which Thou didst command Thy .
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Psalm 106:6 Revelation 19:2 2 Chronicles 25:4 Deuteronomy 6:1 Daniel 9:5-6 Deuteronomy 4:1 Deuteronomy 28:14-15 Nehemiah 9:29-35 Psalm 19:8-9 Leviticus 27:34 Deuteronomy 5:1 Zephaniah 3:7 2 Chronicles 27:2 Malachi 4:4 Ezra 7:6 Daniel 9:13 Deuteronomy 4:5 1 Kings 2:3 Daniel 9:11 Hosea 9:9 Psalm 119:5-8 -
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Remember, I beseech Thee, the that Thou didst command Thy , saying: If ye deal treacherously, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples;
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but if ye return unto Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though your dispersed were in the uttermost part of the , yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to cause My to dwell there.
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Deuteronomy 12:5 Deuteronomy 4:29-31 Deuteronomy 30:2-5 Jeremiah 29:11-14 Jeremiah 50:19-20 Ezra 6:12 Jeremiah 32:37 Leviticus 26:39-42 Ezekiel 36:24 Psalm 147:2 Isaiah 56:8 Jeremiah 12:15 Jeremiah 31:10 1 Chronicles 16:35 1 Kings 9:3 Psalm 106:47 Isaiah 11:12 Matthew 24:31 Jeremiah 3:14 Deuteronomy 12:21 - 10 Now these are Thy servants and Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed by Thy great power, and by Thy strong hand.
- 11 O , I beseech Thee, let now Thine ear be attentive to the prayer of Thy , and to the prayer of Thy servants, who delight to Thy ; and prosper, I pray Thee, Thy this day, and grant him in the sight of this man.’ Now I was cupbearer to the .