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Nehemiah · read by Robin Boisvert
17 verses, in order. Only the verses Robin read aloud are shown.
Nehemiah 9
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You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness— here we are as slaves!Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests."Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
Nehemiah 10
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"The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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We also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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for the showbread, for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings, for the Sabbath offerings, for the New Moons and appointed feasts, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the duties of the house of our God.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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A priest of Aaron's line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment
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For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God."Read from ESV · Revival and Recommitment