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(A)We have worked in utter destruction against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments (B)which You commanded Your [a]servant Moses. Remember the word which You commanded Your [b]servant Moses, saying, ‘(C)If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; (D)but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been banished were at the ends of the sky, I (E)will gather them from there and will bring them (F)to the place where I have chosen to cause My name to dwell.’

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:7 Or slave, cf. 1:6; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”
  2. Nehemiah 1:8 Or slave, cf. 1:6; see Foreword, “The Terminology of Slave”

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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