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Book of Nehemiah, Chapter 8

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Chapter 8 of Nehemiah—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ And all the people proceeded to gather themselves as one man1 at the public square2 that was before the Water Gate.3 Then they said to Ezʹra4 the copyist to bring the book5 of the law of Moses,6 which Jehovah had commanded Israel.7
  2. Accordingly Ezʹra the priest8 brought the law before the congregation[a]9 of men as well as of women and of all intelligent enough to listen,10 on the first day of the seventh month.11
  3. And he continued to read12 aloud from it before the public square that is before the Water Gate, from daybreak13 till midday, in front of the men and the women and the other intelligent ones; and the ears14 of all the people were [attentive]15 to the book of the law.
  4. And Ezʹra the copyist kept standing upon a wooden podium,[b]16 which they had made for the occasion;[c] and there were standing alongside him Mat·ti·thiʹah and Sheʹma and A·naiʹah and U·riʹah and Hil·kiʹah and Ma·a·seiʹah to his right hand, and at his left Pe·daiʹah and Mishʹa·el and Mal·chiʹjah17 and Haʹshum18 and Hash-badʹda·nah, Zech·a·riʹah [and] Me·shulʹlam.
  5. ¶ And Ezʹra proceeded to open19 the book before the eyes of all the people, for he happened to be above all the people; and as he opened it all the people stood up.20
  6. Then Ezʹra blessed Jehovah21 the [true] God, the great One, at which all the people answered, “Amen! Amen!”22 with the lifting up of their hands.23 They then bowed low24 and prostrated themselves to Jehovah with [their] faces to the earth.25
  7. And Jeshʹu·a and Baʹni and She·re·biʹah,26 Jaʹmin, Akʹkub, Shabʹbe·thai, Ho·diʹah, Ma·a·seiʹah, Ke·liʹta, Az·a·riʹah, Joʹza·bad,27 Haʹnan, Pe·laʹiah,28 even the Levites, were explaining the law to the people,[d]29 while the people were in a standing position.30
  8. And they continued reading31 aloud from the book, from the law of the [true] God, it being expounded,[e] and there being a putting[f] of meaning [into it]; and they continued giving understanding in the reading.32
  9. ¶ And Ne·he·miʹah,33 that is, the Tir·shaʹtha,34 and Ezʹra35 the priest, the copyist, and the Levites who were instructing the people proceeded to say to all the people: “This very day is holy to Jehovah YOUR God.36 Do not mourn or weep.”37 For all the people were weeping as they were hearing the words of the law.38
  10. And he went on to say to them: “Go, eat the fatty things and drink the sweet things, and send portions39 to the one for whom nothing has been prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord,[g] and do not feel hurt, for the joy of Jehovah is YOUR stronghold.”
  11. And the Levites were ordering all the people to be silent, saying: “Keep quiet! for this day is holy; and do not feel hurt.”
  12. So all the people went away to eat and drink and to send out portions40 and to carry on a great rejoicing,41 for they had understood the words that had been made known to them.42
  13. ¶ And on the second day the heads of the fathers of all the people, the priests and the Levites, gathered themselves together to Ezʹra the copyist, even to gain insight into the words of the law.43
  14. Then they found written in the law that Jehovah had commanded by means of Moses44 that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths45 during the festival in the seventh month,46
  15. and that they should make proclamation47 and cause a call to pass throughout all their cities and throughout Jerusalem,48 saying: “Go out to the mountainous region49 and bring in olive50 leaves and the leaves of oil trees and myrtle leaves and palm leaves and the leaves of branchy trees to make booths, according to what is written.”
  16. ¶ And the people proceeded to go out and bring [them] in and make booths for themselves, each one upon his own roof51 and in their courtyards and in the courtyards52 of the house of the [true] God and in the public square53 of the Water Gate54 and in the public square of the Gate of Eʹphra·im.55
  17. Thus all the congregation of those who had come back from the captivity made booths and took up dwelling in the booths; for the sons of Israel had not done that way from the days of Joshua[h] the son of Nun56 until that day, so that there came to be very great rejoicing.57
  18. And there was a reading aloud of the book of the law of the [true] God day by day,58 from the first day until the last day; and they went on holding the festival seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.59

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “The congregation of.” Heb., haq·qa·halʹ; Gr., ek·kle·siʹas.
  2. ^ “Upon a wooden podium.” Heb., ʽal-migh·dal-ʽetsʹ; Gr., e·piʹ beʹma·tos xy·liʹnou.
  3. ^ Lit., “word; saying; thing.”
  4. ^ Or, “instructing the people in the law.”
  5. ^ Or, “interpreted.” Heb., mepho·rashʹ; Lat., di·stincʹte.
  6. ^ “There being a putting.” In Heb. this is a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal.
  7. ^ “To our Lord.” Heb., la·ʼAdho·nehʹnu.
  8. ^ “Joshua.” Heb., Ye·shuʹaʽ; LXX, “Jesus.” Compare Jos 1:1 ftn, “Joshua.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ac 2:46
  2. ^ Je 5:1
  3. ^ Ne 3:26; 12:37
  4. ^ Ezr 7:6
  5. ^ 2Ch 34:15
  6. ^ De 31:9; Jos 1:8; 1Ki 2:3
  7. ^ Le 27:34; Nu 36:13; De 28:1
  8. ^ De 17:18; Ml 2:7
  9. ^ De 31:12; 2Ch 17:9
  10. ^ Ne 10:28; Is 28:9
  11. ^ Le 23:24; Nu 29:1; 1Ki 8:2
  12. ^ Lu 4:16; Ac 13:15; 15:21
  13. ^ Ac 28:23
  14. ^ De 5:1
  15. ^ Lu 8:18; Ac 16:14; 17:11; Heb 2:1
  16. ^ 2Ch 6:13
  17. ^ Ne 12:42
  18. ^ Ne 10:18
  19. ^ Lu 4:17
  20. ^ 1Ki 8:14
  21. ^ Ps 72:18; Eph 1:3; Re 4:11
  22. ^ De 27:26; 1Co 14:16
  23. ^ 1Ki 8:22
  24. ^ 1Ch 29:20; 2Ch 20:18; Ps 95:6
  25. ^ Le 9:24; Mt 26:39; Re 7:11
  26. ^ Ne 9:4
  27. ^ Ezr 8:33; Ne 11:16
  28. ^ Ne 10:10
  29. ^ Le 10:11; De 33:10
  30. ^ 1Ki 8:14
  31. ^ 1Ti 4:13
  32. ^ Hab 2:2; Lu 24:27; Ac 8:31
  33. ^ Ne 1:1
  34. ^ Ne 7:65
  35. ^ Ezr 7:11
  36. ^ Le 23:24; Nu 29:1
  37. ^ De 16:14, 15
  38. ^ 2Ki 22:11
  39. ^ Es 9:19
  40. ^ 1Sa 1:4; Lu 11:41; Ac 2:42
  41. ^ Ps 126:2, 3
  42. ^ Ne 8:8; Ps 119:130; Pr 2:10; Lu 24:32
  43. ^ Ps 119:99; Col 1:9, 10
  44. ^ Ac 15:21; 28:23
  45. ^ Le 23:42; De 16:13; Zc 14:16; Jn 7:2
  46. ^ Le 23:34; De 16:16
  47. ^ Le 23:4
  48. ^ Is 33:20
  49. ^ 2Ch 27:4
  50. ^ De 8:8
  51. ^ De 22:8; Ac 10:9
  52. ^ 1Ki 6:36; 7:12; 2Ch 4:9; 20:5
  53. ^ Ne 8:1
  54. ^ Ne 3:26; 8:3
  55. ^ 2Ki 14:13; Ne 12:39
  56. ^ Jos 1:1; Heb 4:8
  57. ^ De 16:14
  58. ^ De 31:12
  59. ^ Le 16:29; 23:36; Jn 7:37

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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