Hello, and welcome
to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank
you for joining with me today
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to read the Word of God together
Let's pray before we start
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Dear God, thank you for this
time right now to come and sit
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quietly and listen to Your Word.
Please still the noise of our
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lives so that Your voice
can be speaking to our hearts
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the lesson that you have
for us right here and right now.
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Thank you so much for the
life and the light that we will
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receive. We love you so much and
thank you for loving us. Amen
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When we were last together,
we were reading in the book of
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Nehemiah, and the people
have and have stood and listened
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as the law of God was
read. And they rejoiced and they
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feasted with gladness, as they
celebrated the hearing of the
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Word of God together. Were
going to pick up the account in
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Nehemiah, chapter 8, verse 12,
This is the King James Version.
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And all the people went
their way to eat, and to drink,
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and to send portions, and to
make great mirth, because they
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had understood the words
that were declared unto them.
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And on the second day were
gathered together the chief of
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the fathers of all the people,
the priests, and the Levites,
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unto Ezra the scribe, even to
understand the words of the law.
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And they found written in the
law which the Lord had commanded
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by Moses, that the children
of Israel should dwell in booths
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in the feast of
the seventh month:
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And that they should publish and
proclaim in all their cities,
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and in Jerusalem, saying, Go
forth unto the mount, and fetch
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olive branches, and pine
branches, and myrtle branches,
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and palm branches, and branches
of thick trees, to make booths,
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as it is written. So the people
went forth, and brought them,
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and made themselves booths,
every one upon the roof of his
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house, and in their courts, and
in the courts of the house of
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God, and in the street of the
water gate, and in the street of
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the gate of Ephraim. And all the
congregation of them that were
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come again out of the captivity
made booths, and sat under the
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booths; for since the days of
Jeshua the son of Nun unto that
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day had not the children of
Israel done so. And there was
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very great gladness. Also day by
day, from the first day unto the
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last day, he read in the book
of the law of God. And they kept
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the feast seven days; and on the
eighth day was a solemn assembly
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according unto the
manner. We're continuing now
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in chapter 9 of Nehemiah, and
this is the King James Version.
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Now in the twenty and fourth day
of this month the children of
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Israel were assembled with
fasting, and with sackclothes
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and earth upon them. And
the seed of Israel separated
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themselves from all strangers,
and stood and confessed their
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sins and the iniquities of their
fathers. And they stood up in
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their place, and read in the
book of the law of the Lord God
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one fourth part of the day;
and another fourth part they
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confessed, and
worshipped the Lord their God.
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Then stood up upon the stairs,
of the Levites, Jeshua and Bani,
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Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni,
Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani,
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and cried with a loud
voice unto the Lord their God.
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Then the Levites, Jeshua,
and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah,
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Sherebiah, Hodijah,
Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said,
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Stand up and bless the
Lord your God for ever and ever:
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and blessed be thy glorious
name, which is exalted above all
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blessing and praise.
Thou, even thou, art Lord alone;
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thou hast made heaven, the
heaven of heavens, with all
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their host, the earth, and
all things that are therein,
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the seas, and all that is
therein and thou preservest them
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all; and the host of
heaven worshippeth thee.
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Thou art the Lord the
God, who didst choose Abram,
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and broughtest him forth
out of Ur of the Chaldees,
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and gavest him
the name of Abraham;
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And foundest his heart
faithful before thee, and madest
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a covenant with him to
give the land of the Canaanites,
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the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the
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Jebusites, and the Girgashites,
to give it, I say, to his seed,
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and hast performed thy
words; for thou art righteous:
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And didst see the affliction
of our fathers in Egypt,
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and heardest their cry by
the Red Sea; and shewedst signs
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and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on
all his servants, and on all the
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people of his land: for thou
knewest that they dealt proudly
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against them. 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
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through the midst of
the sea on the dry land;
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and their persecutors
thou threwest into the deeps,
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as a stone into the mighty
waters. Moreover thou leddest
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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
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should go. Thou camest
down also upon mount Sinai,
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and spakest with them
from heaven, and gavest them
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right judgments, and true laws,
good statutes and commandments:
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and madest known unto them thy
holy sabbath, and commandedst
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them precepts, statutes, and
laws, by the hand of Moses thy
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servant: and gavest them bread
from heaven for their hunger,
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and broughtest forth water for
them out of the rock for their
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thirst, and promisedst them that
they should go in to possess the
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land which thou hadst sworn
to give them. But they and our
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fathers dealt proudly,
and hardened their necks,
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and hearkened not
to thy commandments,
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and refused to obey, neither
were mindful of thy wonders
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that thou didst among
them; but hardened their necks,
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and in their rebellion appointed
a captain to return to their
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bondage: but thou art a God
ready to pardon, gracious and
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merciful, slow to anger and of
great kindness, and forsookest
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them not. Yea, when they
had made them a molten calf,
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and said, This is thy God that
brought thee up out of Egypt,
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and had wrought
great provocations;
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Yet thou in thy manifold mercies
forsookest them not in the
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wilderness; the pillar of
the cloud departed not from them
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by day, to lead them in the
way neither the pillar of fire
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by night, to show them light,
and the way wherein they should
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go. Thou gavest also thy
good spirit to instruct them,
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and withheldest not thy manna
from their mouth, and gavest
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them water for their thirst. Yea
forty years didst thou sustain
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them in the wilderness,
so that they lacked nothing;
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their clothes waxed not
old, and their feet swelled not.
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Moreover thou gavest
them kingdoms and nations,
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and didst divide them into
corners: so they possessed the
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land of Sihon, and the
land of the king of Heshbon,
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and the land of Og king of
Bashan. Their children also
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multipliedst thou as the stars
of heaven, and broughtest them
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into the land, concerning which
thou hadst promised to their
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fathers, that they
should go in to possess it.
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So the children went in and
possessed the land, and thou
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subduedst before them
the inhabitants of the land,
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the Caananites, and
gavest them into their hands,
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with their kings, and the people
of the land, that they might
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do with them as they would.
And they took strong cities,
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and a fat land, and possessed
houses full of all goods,
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wells digged, vineyards,
and oliveyards, and fruit trees
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in abundance: so they did eat,
and were filled, and became fat,
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and delighted themselves in
thy great goodness. Nevertheless
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they were disobedient,
and rebelled against thee,
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and cast thy law behind their
backs, and slew thy prophets
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which testified against
them to turn them to thee,
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and they wrought
great provocations.
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Therefore thou deliveredst them
into the hand of their enemies,
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who vexed them: and in the
time of their trouble, when they
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cried unto thee, thou
heardest them from heaven;
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and according to thy manifold
mercies thou gavest them saviors
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who saved them out of the hand
of their enemies. But after they
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had rest, they did evil again
before thee: therefore leftest
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thou them in the hand of their
enemies, so that they had the
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dominion over them: yet when
they returned, and cried unto
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thee, thou heardest them from
heaven; and many times didst
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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
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commandments, but sinned against
thy judgments, which if a man do
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he shall live in them;
and withdrew the shoulder,
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and hardened their neck, and
would not hear. Yet many years
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didst thou forbear them, and
testifiedst against them by thy
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spirit in thy prophets:
yet would they not give ear:
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therefore gavest thou them into
the hand of the people of the
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lands. Nevertheless for thy
great mercies' sake thou didst
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not utterly consume
them, nor forsake them:
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for thou art a gracious and
merciful God. Now therefore,
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our God, the great, the
mighty, and the terrible God,
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who keepeth covenant and mercy,
let not all the trouble seem
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little before thee, that
hath come upon us, on our kings,
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on our princes, and on our
priests, and on our prophets,
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and on our fathers, and on all
thy people, since the time of
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the kings of Assyria unto
this day. Howbeit thou art just
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in all that is brought upon
us; for thou hast done right,
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but we have done wickedly:
Neither have our kings,
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our princes, our priests,
nor our fathers, kept thy law,
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nor hearkened unto thy
commandments and thy testimonies
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wherewith thou didst
testify against them.
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For they have not served thee
in their kingdom, and in thy
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great goodness that thou gavest
them, and in the large and fat
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land which thou gavest before
them, neither turned away from
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their wicked works. Behold,
we are servants this day,
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and for the land that thou
gavest unto our fathers to eat
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the fruit thereof and the good
thereof, behold, we are servants
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in it: and it yieldeth much
increase unto the kings whom
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thou hast set over us because
of our sins: also they have
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dominion over our bodies,
and over our cattle, at their
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pleasure, and we are in great
distress. And because of all
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this we make a sure covenant,
and write it; and our princes,
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Levites, and priests, seal unto
it. We're going to continue to
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read in Nehemiah. In
the first part of chapter 10
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is a listing of the names of
those who sealed the covenant.
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So we'll skip over the reading
of that listing, and we'll pick
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up in Nehemiah 10,
starting with verse 28.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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And the rest of the people,
the priests, the Levites,
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the porters, the singers, the
Nethinims, and all they that had
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separated themselves from the
people of the lands unto the law
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of God, their wives, their sons
and their daughters, every one
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having knowledge, and having
understanding; they clave to
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their brethren, their nobles,
and entered into a curse,
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and into an oath, to walk
in God's law, which was given
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by Moses the servant of God,
and to observe and do all the
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commandments of the Lord
our Lord, and his judgments
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and his statutes; And that
we would not give our daughters
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unto the people of the land,
nor take their daughters for our
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sons: And if the people of the
land bring ware or any victuals
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on the sabbath day to sell,
that we would not buy it of them
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on the sabbath, or on the holy
day: and that we would leave the
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seventh year, and the exaction
of every debt. Also we made
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ordinances for us, to charge
ourselves yearly with the third
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part of a shekel for the
service of the house of our God;
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for the shewbread, and for the
continual meat offering, and for
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the continual burnt offering,
of the sabbaths, of the new
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moons, for the set feasts, and
for the holy things, and for the
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sin offerings to make
an atonement for Israel,
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and for all the work
of the house of our God.
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And we cast the lots among the
priests, the Levites, and the
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people for the wood offering, to
bring it into the house of our
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God, after the houses of
our fathers, at times appointed
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year by year, to burn upon
the altar of the Lord our God,
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as it is written in the law: and
to bring the firstfruits of our
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ground, and the firstfruits
of all fruit of all trees,
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year by year unto the house of
the Lord: also the firstborn of
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our sons, and of our cattle,
as it is written in the law,
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and the firstlings of our herds
and of our flocks, to bring
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to the house of our God, unto
the priests that minister in the
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house of our God: and that
we should bring the firstfruits
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of our dough, and our offerings
and the fruit of all manner of
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trees, of wine and of oil, unto
the priests, to the chambers
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of the house of our God; and the
tithes of our ground unto the
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Levites that the same Levites
might have the tithes in all the
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cities of our tillage. And the
priest the son of Aaron shall
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be with the Levites,
when the Levites take tithes:
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and the Levites shall bring up
the tithe of the tithes unto the
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house of our God, to the
chambers, into the treasure
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house. - Please join with
me again next time to read the
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word of God together. Goodbye.
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