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         <div class="pi1"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="NEH.7.73"><span class="label">73</span><span class="content">The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the musicians and the temple servants, along with certain of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="NEH.7.73"><span class="content">When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,</span></span></div>
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         <div class="nb"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">all the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the teacher of the Law to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded for Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So on the first day of the seventh month Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Ezra the teacher of the Law stood on a high wooden platform built for the occasion. Beside him on his right stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah and Maaseiah; and on his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Ezra opened the book. All the people could see him because he was standing above them; and as he opened it, the people all stood up. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Ezra praised the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the great God; and all the people lifted their hands and responded, &#8220;Amen! Amen!&#8221; Then they bowed down and worshiped the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with their faces to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Levites&#8212;Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan and Pelaiah&#8212;instructed the people in the Law while the people were standing there. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">God, translating it</span></span></span><span class="content"> and giving the meaning so that the people understood what was being read.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all, &#8220;This day is holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. Do not mourn or weep.&#8221; For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Nehemiah said, &#8220;Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is your strength.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The Levites calmed all the people, saying, &#8220;Be still, for this is a holy day. Do not grieve.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then all the people went away to eat and drink, to send portions of food and to celebrate with great joy, because they now understood the words that had been made known to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and the Levites, gathered around Ezra the teacher to give attention to the words of the Law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They found written in the Law, which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: &#8220;Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters&#8221;&#8212;as it is written.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">See Lev. 23:37-40.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The whole company that had returned from exile built temporary shelters and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this. And their joy was very great.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation, there was an assembly.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed&#8212;a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is from faith to faith</span></span></span><span class="content"> just as it is written: &#8220;The righteous will live by faith.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">Hab. 2:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TI.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TI.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">so that the servant of God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that you, a man of God,</span></span></span><span class="content"> may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.</span></span></div>
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