Nehemiah 8:6-8
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
6 And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God; and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands; and they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. 7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebi′ah, Jamin, Akkub, Shab′bethai, Hodi′ah, Ma-asei′ah, Keli′ta, Azari′ah, Jo′zabad, Hanan, Pelai′ah, the Levites,[a] helped the people to understand the law, while the people remained in their places. 8 And they read from the book, from the law of God, clearly;[b] and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.[c]
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- Nehemiah 8:7 1 Esdras 9.48 Vg: Heb and the Levites
- Nehemiah 8:8 Or with interpretation
- 8.8 The book was of course written in Hebrew, but the people, since their sojourn in Babylonia, now spoke Aramaic, and it had to be translated for them into that tongue.
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