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Chapter 8 And all the people gathered
themselves together, as one man,

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into the street that was before the water
gate.

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And they spake unto Ezra the scribe,
to bring the book of the law of Moses,

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which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

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And Ezra the priest brought the law before
the congregation, both of men and women,

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and all that could hear with
understanding, upon the first day of the

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seventh month.

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And he read therein before the street that
was before the water gate, from the

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morning until midday, before the men and
the women and those that could understand.

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And the ears of all the people were
attentive unto the book of the law.

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And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of
wood, which they had made for the purpose.

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And beside him stood Mattithiah,
and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah,

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and Hilkiah, and Maaseah on his right
hand, and on his left hand, Pideah,

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and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashem,
and Hashpadinah, Zechariah, and Meshulam.

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And Ezra opened the book in the sight of
all the people, for he was above all the

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people.

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And when he opened it, all the people
stood up, and Ezra blessed the Lord,

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the great God.

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And all the people answered, Amen,
Amen, with lifting up their hands.

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And they bowed their heads and worshipped
the Lord with their faces to the ground.

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Also Jeshua, and Benai, and Sherabiah,
Jamin, Aqab, Shabbatai, Hodeidah,

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Maaseah, Kilaitah, Azariah, Josabath,
Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites,

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caused the people to understand the law.

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And the people stood in their place.

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So they read in the book, in the law of
God distinctly, and gave the sense,

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and caused them to understand the reading.

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And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshethah,
and Ezra the priest, the scribe,

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and the Levites that taught the people,
said unto all the people, This day is holy

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unto the Lord your God.

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Mourn not, nor weep.

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For all the people wept when they heard
the words of the law.

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Then he said unto them, Go your way,
eat the fat, and drink the sweet,

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and send portions unto them for whom
nothing is prepared.

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For this day is holy unto our Lord.

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Neither be ye sorry, for the joy of the
Lord is your strength.

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So the Levites stilled all the people,
saying, Hold your peace, for the day is

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holy.

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Neither be ye grieved.

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And all the people went their way to eat,
and to drink, and to send portions,

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and to make a great mirth, because they
had understood the words that were

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declared unto them.

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And on the second day were gathered
together the chief of the fathers of all

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the people, the priests, and the Levites,
unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand

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the words of the law.

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And they found written in the law,
which the Lord had commanded by Moses,

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that the children of Israel should dwell
in booths in the feast of the seventh

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month, and that they should publish and
proclaim in all their cities and in

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Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the
mount, and fetch olive branches,

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and pine branches, and myrtle branches,
and palm branches, and branches of thick

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trees, to make booths, as it is written.

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So the people went forth, and brought
them, and made themselves booths,

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every one upon the roof of his house,
and in their courts, and in the courts of

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the house of God, and in the street of the
water gate, and in the street of the gate

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of Ephraim.

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And all the congregation of them that were
come again out of the captivity made

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booths, and sat under the booths.

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For since the days of Jeshua the son of
Nun, unto that day had not the children of

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Israel done so.

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And there was very great gladness.

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Also day by day, from the first day unto
the last day, he read in the book of the

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law of God.

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And they kept the feast seven days.

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And on the eighth day was a solemn
assembly, according unto the manner.