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We have acted very corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.(A) Please remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful and violate your obligations to Me I will scatter you [abroad] among the peoples;(B) but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered are in the most remote part of the [a]heavens, I will gather them from there and will bring them to the place where I have chosen for My [b]Name to dwell.’(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:9 This seems to be a hypothetical expression, but the grammatical form is that of a real possibility, to emphasize that God will find His people no matter where in the world they may be.
  2. Nehemiah 1:9 See note Deut 12:5.

We have acted very wickedly(A) toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.

“Remember(B) the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter(C) you among the nations, but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather(D) them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’(E)

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