We have [a]grievously sinned against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

I beseech thee, remember the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, Ye will transgress, and (A)I will scatter you abroad among the people.

But if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them, (B)though your scattering were to the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather you from thence, and will bring you unto the place that I have chosen to place my Name there.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:7 Hebrew, corrupted.

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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