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Chapter 9 Now in the twenty and fourth day
of this month, the children of Israel were

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assembled with fasting, and with
sackclothes, and earth upon them.

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And the seed of Israel separated
themselves from all strangers,

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and stood and confessed their sins,
and the iniquities of their fathers.

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And they stood up in their place,
and read in the book of the law of the

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Lord their God, one fourth part of the
day.

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And another fourth part they confessed,
and worshipped the Lord their God.

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Then stood up upon the stairs of the
Levites, Jeshua, and Benai, Kadmiel,

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Shebaniah, Bunai, Sherebiah, Benai,
and Kanani, and cried with a loud voice

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unto the Lord their God.

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Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel,
Benai, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodeidah,

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Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said,
Stand up, and bless the Lord your God for

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ever and ever.

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And blessed be thy glorious name,
which is exalted above all blessing and

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praise.

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Thou, even thou, art Lord alone.

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Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of
heavens, with all their host, the earth,

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and all things that are therein,
the seas, and all that is therein,

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and thou preservest them all.

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And the host of heaven worshipeth thee.

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Thou art the Lord the God, who didst
choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out

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of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the
name of Abraham, and foundest his heart

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faithful before thee, and madest a
covenant with him to give the land of the

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Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites,

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and the Girgashites, to give it,
I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy

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words, for thou art righteous.

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And didst see the affliction of our
fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry

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by the Red Sea, and showedst signs and
wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his

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servants, and on all the people of his
land, for thou knewest that they dealt

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proudly against them.

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So didst thou get thee a name,
as it is this day.

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And thou didst divide the sea before them,
so that they went through the midst of the

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sea on the dry land, and their persecutors
thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone

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into the mighty waters.

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Moreover, thou leadest them in the day by
a cloudy pillar, and in the night by a

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pillar of fire, to give them light in the
way wherein they should go.

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Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai,
and spakest with them from heaven,

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and gavest them right judgments,
and true laws, good statutes, and

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commandments.

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And madest known unto them thy holy
Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts,

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statutes, and laws by the hand of Moses
thy servant.

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And gavest them bread from heaven for
their hunger, and broughtest forth water

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for them out of the rock for their thirst,
and promisedst them that they should go in

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to possess the land which thou hadst sworn
to give them.

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But they and our fathers dealt proudly,
and hardened their necks, and hearkened

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not to thy commandments, and refused to
obey.

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Neither were mindful of thy wonders that
thou didst among them, but hardened their

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necks, and in their rebellion appointed a
captain to return to their bondage.

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But thou art a God ready to pardon,
gracious and merciful, slow to anger,

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and of great kindness, and forsookest them
not.

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Yea, when they had made them a molten
calf, and said, This is thy God that

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brought thee up out of Egypt, and had
wrought great provocations, yet thou in

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thy manifold mercies forsookest them not
in the wilderness.

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The pillar of the cloud departed not from
them by day to lead them in the way,

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neither the pillar of fire by night to
show them light, and the way wherein they

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should go.

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Thou gavest also thy good spirit to
instruct them, and withheldest not thy

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manna from their mouth, and gavest them
water for their thirst.

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Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them
in the wilderness, so that they lacked

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nothing, their clothes waxed not old,
and their feet swelled not.

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Moreover, thou gavest them kingdoms and
nations, and didst divide them into

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corners, so they possessed the land of
Sihon, and the land of the king of

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Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of
Bashan.

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Their children also multipliedst thou as
the stars of heaven, and broughtest them

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into the land, concerning which thou hadst
promised to their fathers that they should

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go in to possess it.

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So the children went in, and possessed the
land, and thou subduest them before the

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inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,
and gavest them into their hands,

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with their kings and the people of the
land, that they might do with them as they

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would.

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Then they took strong cities, and a fat
land, and possessed houses full of all

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goods, wells digged, vineyards and
oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance.

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So they did eat, and were filled,
and became fat, and delighted themselves

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in thy great goodness.

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Nevertheless they were disobedient,
and rebelled against thee, and cast thy

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law behind their backs, and slew thy
prophets which testified against them to

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turn them to thee, and they wrought great
provocations.

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Therefore thou deliverest them into the
hand of their enemies who vexed them,

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and at the time of their trouble,
when they cried unto thee, thou heardest

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them from heaven, and according to thy
manifold mercies thou gavest them saviors,

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who saved them out of the hand of their
enemies.

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But after they had rest, they did evil
again before thee.

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Therefore leftest thou them in the hand of
their enemies, so that they had the

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dominion over them.

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Yet when they returned and cried unto
thee, thou heardest them from heaven,

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and many times didst thou deliver them
according to thy mercies, and testifiedst

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against them, that thou mightest bring
them again unto thy law.

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Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not
unto thy commandments, but sinned against

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thy judgments, which if a man do,
he shall live in them, and withdrew the

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shoulder, and hardened their neck,
and would not hear.

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Yet many years didst thou forbear them,
and testifiedst against them by thy spirit

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and thy prophets, yet would they not give
ear.

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Therefore gavest thou them into the hand
of the people of the lands.

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Nevertheless for thy great mercy's sake
thou didst not utterly consume them,

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nor forsake them, for thou art a gracious
and merciful God.

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Now therefore, our God, the great,
the mighty, and the terrible God,

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who keepest covenant and mercy,
let not all the trouble seem little before

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thee, that hath come upon us, on our
kings, on our princes, and on our priests,

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and on our prophets, and on our fathers,
and on all thy people, since the time of

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the kings of Assyria unto this day.

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How be it thou art just in all that is
brought upon us?

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For thou hast done right, but we have done
wickedly.

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Neither have our kings, our princes,
our priests, nor our fathers kept thy law,

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nor hearkened unto thy commandments and
thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst

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testify against them.

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For they have not served thee in their
kingdom, and in thy great goodness that

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thou gavest them, and in the large and fat
land which thou gavest before them,

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neither turned they from their wicked
works.

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Behold, we are servants this day,
and for the land that thou gavest unto our

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fathers to eat the fruit thereof,
and the good thereof, behold, we are

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servants in it.

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And it yieldeth much increase unto the
kings whom thou hast set over us because

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of our sins.

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Also they have dominion over our bodies
and over our cattle at their pleasure,

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and we are in great distress.

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And because of all this, we make a sure
covenant and write it, and our princes,

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Levites, and priests seal unto it.

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This concludes Disc Number 27.