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 2
Tanakh 20 verses
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And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the , when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the . Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
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And the said unto me: ‘Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of .’ Then I was very sore afraid.
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- 3 And I said unto the : ‘Let the live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?’
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Then the said unto me: ‘For what dost thou make request?’ So I prayed to the of .
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And I said unto the : ‘If it please the , and if thy have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto , unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.’
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And the said unto me, the queen also sitting by him: ‘For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?’ So it pleased the to send me; and I set him a time.
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Moreover I said unto the : ‘If it please the , let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto ;
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- 8 and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s park, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.’ And the granted me, according to the good hand of my upon me.
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Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
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And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the , the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of .
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So I came to , and was there three days.
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- 12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my put into my to do for ; neither was there any beast with me, the beast that I rode upon.
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And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the dragon’s well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of , which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
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Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king’s pool; but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
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Then went I up in the night in the valley, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
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- 16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
- 17 Then said I unto them: ‘Ye see the evil case that we are in, how lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire; come and let us build up the wall of , that we be no more a reproach.’
- 18 And I told them of the hand of my which was good upon me; as also of the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said: ‘Let us rise up and build.’ So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
- 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the , the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: ‘What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the ?’
- 20 Then answered I them, and said unto them: ‘The of , He will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in .’