- Nehemias (Second of Esdras)
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chapter 8
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And
the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And
all the people were gathered together as one mall to the street which is before
the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the
law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
2 Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the
multitude of men and women, and all those that could understand, in the first
day of the seventh month.
3 And he read it plainly in the street that was before
the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women,
and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were
attentive to the book.
4 And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood,
which he had made to speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia,
and Ania, and Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left,
Phadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and Mosollam.
5 And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for
he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.
6 And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all
the people answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down,
and adored God with their faces to the ground.
7 Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub,
Sephtai, Odia, Maasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites,
made silence among the people to hear the law: end the people stood in their
place.
8 And they read in the book of the law of God
distinctly and plainly to be understood: and they understood when it was read.
9 And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest
and scribe, and the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a
holy day to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people wept,
when they heard the words of the law.
10 And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink
sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because
it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our
strength.
11 And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold
your peace, for the day is holy, and be not sorrowful.
12 So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send
portions, and to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he
had taught them.
13 And on the second day the chiefs of the families of
all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Esdras
the scribe, that he should interpret to them the words of the law.
14 And they found written in the law, that the Lord had
commanded by the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in
tabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:
15 And that they should proclaim and publish the word
in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the mount, and fetch
branches of olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches of myrtle, and
branches of palm, and branches of thick trees, to make tabernacles, as it is
written.
16 And the people went forth, and brought. And they
made themselves tabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their
courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water
gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
17 And all the assembly of them that were returned from
the captivity, made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the days
of Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had not done so, until that day:
and there was exceeding great joy.
18 And he read in the book of the law of God day by
day, from the first day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days,
and in the eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.
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