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8 And all the people assembled themselves together in the street that was before the Water Gate. And they asked Ezra the scribe if he would bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had Commanded, to Israel.
2 And Ezra the Priest brought the Law before the Congregation, men and women and all who could hear and understand it, on the first day of the seventh month.
3 And he read from it, from morning until midday, in the street that was before the Water Gate, before men and women and those who understood it. And the ears of all the people listened to the Book of the Law.
4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood which he had made for the preaching. And beside him stood Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Urijah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on his right. And on his left was Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbadana, Zechariah and Meshullam.
5 And Ezra opened the Book before all the people. For he was above all the people. And when he opened it, all the people stood up.
6 And Ezra praised the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, “Amen! Amen!” with lifting up of their hands. And they bowed themselves and worshipped the LORD with their faces toward the ground.
7 Also Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah and the Levites made the people understand the Law. And the people stood in their place.
8 And they read in the Book of the Law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and made them understand the reading.
9 Then Nehemiah (who is Tirshatha) and Ezra the Priest and scribe and the Levites who instructed the people, said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God! Do not mourn or weep!” For all the people wept when they heard the Words of the Law.
10 He also said to them, “Go! Eat the fat and drink the sweet and send part to those for whom none has been prepared! For this day is holy to our LORD! Therefore, do not be sorry! For the joy of the LORD is your strength!”
11 And the Levites silenced all the people, saying, “Hold your peace! For the day is holy! Therefore, do not be sad!”
12 Then all the people went to eat and drink, and to send away part, and to make great joy, because they had understood the Words that they had taught them.
13 And on the second day, the chief fathers of all the people, the priests and the Levites, were gathered to Ezra the scribe, so that he also might instruct them in the Words of the Law.
14 And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had Commanded Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths during the Feast of the seventh month,
15 and that they should have it declared and proclaimed in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go forth to the Mount, and bring olive branches and pine branches and branches of myrtle and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
16 So the people went forth and brought them and made themselves booths, each one upon the roof of his house and in their courts and in the courts of the House of God and in the street by the Water Gate and in the street of the Gate of Ephraim.
17 And all the Congregation of those who had come back from the captivity made booths and sat under the booths. For since the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, until this day, had the children of Israel not done so. And there was very great joy.
18 And he read in the Book of the Law of God every day, from the first day to the last day. And they kept the Feast for seven days, and a solemn assembly on the eighth day, according to procedure.
9 On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the children of Israel were assembled, with fasting and with sackcloth and earth upon them.
2 And those who were of the seed of Israel were separated from all the strangers. And they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 And they stood up in their place and read in the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for one fourth of the day. And they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God four times.
4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani and Chenani stood up upon the stairs of the Levites and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God.
5 And the Levites (Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah) said, “Stand up and praise the LORD your God forever and ever! And let them praise Your glorious Name, O God, which excels above all thanksgiving and praise!
6 “You are LORD alone! You have made heaven, and the Heaven of all heavens, with all their host, the Earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that are in them! And You preserve them all! And the host of Heaven worships You!
7 “You are, O LORD, the God Who has chosen Abram, and brought him out of Ur in Chaldeans, and made his name Abraham,
8 “and found his heart faithful before You, and made a Covenant with him, to give to his seed the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites, and have performed Your words because You are just!
9 “You have also considered the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
10 “and showed signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land! For You knew that they dealt proudly against them! Therefore, You made Yourself a Name, as it is this day!
11 “For You broke up the Sea before them; and they went through the midst of the Sea on dry land! And You have cast those who pursued into the bottoms, as a stone in the mighty waters,
12 “and led them in the day with a pillar of a cloud, and in the night with a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way that they went!
13 “You also came down upon Mount Sinai and spoke to them from Heaven, and gave them right Judgments, and true Laws, Ordinances and good Commandments,
14 “and declared to them Your holy Sabbath, and commanded them Precepts and Ordinances and Laws, by the hand of Moses Your servant,
15 “and gave them bread from Heaven for their hunger and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst and promised them that they would go in and take possession of the land which You had lifted up Your Hand to give them!
16 “But they and our fathers behaved proudly and hardened their neck, so that they did not listen to Your Commandments,
17 “but refused to obey and would not remember Your marvelous works that You had done for them, but hardened their necks and had in their heads to return to their bondage by their rebellion! But You, O God of Mercies, gracious and full of compassion, of long-suffering, and of great mercy, still did not forsake them!
18 “Moreover, when they made themselves a molten calf (and said, ‘This is your God Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt’) and committed great blasphemies—
19 “because of Your great mercies—You still did not forsake them in the wilderness! The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day to lead the way, nor did the pillar of fire by night to show them light and the way by which they should go!
20 “You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst!
21 “You also fed them for forty years in the wilderness! They lacked nothing! Their clothes did not grow old, and their feet did not swell!
9 Am I not an Apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an Apostle to others, nonetheless, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my Apostleship in the Lord.
3 My defense to those who examine me, is this:
4 Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?
5 Or do we not have authority to take along a wife who is a sister, just as the rest of the Apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or do only Barnabas and I not have authority to not work?
7 Who goes to war at any time at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of the fruit thereof? Or, who feeds a flock, and does not drink of the milk of the flock?
8 Do I say these things according to man? Does not the Law say the same also?
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, ‘You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn’. Is God concerned for oxen?
10 Or does He not undoubtedly say this for our sakes? It is for our sakes this is written. That he who plows, should plow in hope, and that he who threshes in hope, should be a partaker of His hope.
11 If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap earthly things from you?
12 If others are partakers of this authority over you, should not we be more so? Nevertheless, we have not used this authority, but endure all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.
13 Do you not know that those who administer the holy things, eat of the things of the Temple? And those who attend the altar are partakers with the altar?
14 So also has the Lord ordained, that those who preach the Gospel, should live from the Gospel.
15 But I have used none of these things. Nor have I written these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that anyone should make my exultation void.
16 For though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing in which to exult. For compulsion is laid upon me, and woe is to me, if I do not preach the Gospel.
17 For if I do it willingly, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, the stewardship is entrusted to me.
18 What is my reward then? Truly, that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I do not abuse my authority in the Gospel.
12 Blessed is that nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen for His inheritance.
13 The LORD looks down from Heaven, beholding all the children of men.
14 From the habitation of His dwelling he beholds all those who dwell on the Earth.
15 He fashions their hearts, every one, understanding all their works.
16 The king is not saved by the multitude of an army; nor is the mighty man delivered by great strength.
17 A horse is a vain help and shall not deliver by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon those who fear Him, upon those who trust in His mercy
19 to deliver their souls from death and to preserve them in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD. He is our Help and our Shield.
21 Surely, our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we trusted in His Holy Name.
22 Let Your mercy, O LORD, be upon us. As we trusted in You. A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away and he departed.
11 When the scoffer is punished, the simple are made wise. And when one instructs the wise, he will receive knowledge.
12 The righteous teaches the house of the wicked. But God overthrows the wicked for their evil.
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