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grounde. Also Ieshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, 9
Iamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiiah, Maaseiah, 1 In the foure and twentieth day of this moneth
Kelita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the the children of Israel were assembled with fast-
Leuitescausedthepeopletovnderstandthelawe, ing, and with sackecloth, and earth vpon them.
and the people stood in their place. 8 And they 2 (And they that were of the seede of Israel were
read in the booke of the Lawe of God distinctly, separated from all the strangers) and they stoode
and gaue the sense, and caused them to vnder- and confessed their sinnes and the iniquities
stand the reading. 9 Then Nehemiah (which is of their fathers. 3 And they stood vp in their
Tirshatha) and Ezra the Priest and scribe, and place and read in the booke of the Lawe of the
the Leuites that instructed the people, saide vnto Lord their GOD foure times on the day, and they
all the people, This day is holie vnto ye Lord confessed and worshipped the Lord their God
your God: mourne not, neither weepe: for all foure times. Then stoode vp vpon the staires of
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the people wept, whe they heard the words of the Leuites Ieshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah,
the Lawe. 10 He saide also vnto the, Go, and Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cryed
eate of the fat, and drinke the sweete, and send with a loud voyce vnto the Lord their God. And
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part vnto them, for whome none is prepared: for the Leuites said, euen Ieshua and Kadmiel, Bani,
this day is holie vnto our Lord: be ye not sorie Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodiiah, Shebaniah and
therefore: for the ioy of the Lord is your strength. Pethahiah, Stande vp, and praise the Lord your
11 And the Leuites made silence throughout all God for euer, and euer, and let them praise thy
the people, saying, Holde your peace: for the glorious Name, O God, which excelleth aboue
day is holy, be not sad therefore. 12 Then all the all thankesgiuing and praise. 6 Thou art Lord
people went to eate and to drinke, and to send alone: thou hast made heauen, and the heauen
away part, and to make great ioy, because they of all heauens, with all their hoste, the earth,
had vnderstand the wordes that they had taught and all things that are therein, the seas, and al
them. 13 And on the second day the chiefe fathers that are in them, and thou preseruest them all,
of all the people, the Priests and the Leuites were and the host of the heauen worshippeth thee.
gathered vnto Ezra the scribe, that he also might 7 Thou art, O Lord, the God, that hast chosen
instruct them in the wordes of the Lawe. 14 And Abram, and broughtest him out of Vr in Caldea,
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they found written in the Law, (that the Lord had and madest his name Abraham, And foundest
commanded by Moses) that the children of Israel his heart faithful before thee, and madest a
couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede the
should dwel in boothes in the feast of the seuenth
moneth, 15 And that they shoulde cause it to bee lande of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and
Perizzites, and Iebusites, and Girgashites, and
declared and proclaimed in all their cities, and hast performed thy wordes, because thou art
in Ierusalem, saying, Go forth vnto the mount, iust. 9 Thou hast also considered the affliction
and bring oliue branches, and pine branches, and of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by
branches of myrtus, and palme branches, and the red Sea, 10 And shewed tokens and wonders
branches of thicke trees, to make boothes, as it is vpon Pharaoh, and on all his seruants, and on
written. 16 Sothepeoplewentfoorthandbrought all the people of his land: for thou knewest that
them, and made them boothes, euerie one vpon they dealt proudely against them: therefore thou
the roofe of his house, and in their courtes, and in madest thee a Name, as appeareth this day. 11 For
the courtes of the house of God, and in the streete
by the watergate, and in the streete of the gate thou didest breake vp the Sea before them, and
of Ephraim. 17 And all the Congregation of them they went through the middes of the Sea on dry
that were come againe out of the captiuitie made lande: and those that pursued them, hast thou
boothes, and sate vnder the boothes: for since cast into the bottomes as a stone, in the mightie
the time of Ieshua the sonne of Nun vnto this day, waters: 12 And leddest them in the day with a
had not the children of Israel done so, and there pillar of a cloude, and in the night with a pillar
was very great ioy. 18 And he read in the booke of fire to giue them light in the way that they
of the Lawe of God euery day, from the first day went. 13 Thou camest downe also vpon mount
vnto the last day. and they kept the feast seuen Sinai, and spakest vnto them from heauen, and
dayes, and on the eight day a solemne assemblie, gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes,
according vnto the maner. ordinances and good commandements, 14 And
declaredst vnto them thine holy Sabbath, and