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gladness.
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Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of
God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day
was
a solemn assembly, according
unto the manner.
CHAPTER 9
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting,
and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
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And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all
strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
3
And they stood
up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the L
ORD
their God
one
fourth part of the day;
and
another
fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the L
ORD
their God.
4
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni,
Sherebiah, Bani,
and
Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the L
ORD
their God.
5
Then the
Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah,
and
Pethahiah,
said, Stand up
and
bless the L
ORD
your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name,
which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
6
Thou,
even
thou,
art
L
ORD
alone; thou hast made
heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all
things
that
are
therein, the seas,
and all that
is
therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
7
Thou
art
the L
ORD
the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees,
and gavest him the name of Abraham;
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And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a
covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give
it, I say,
to his seed, and hast performed thy words;
for thou
art
righteous:
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And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry
by the Red sea;
10
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on
all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get
thee a name, as
it is
this day.
11
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through
the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone
into the mighty waters.
12
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night
by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
13
Thou camest down also
upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true
laws, good statutes and commandments:
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And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and
commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
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And gavest
them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for
their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn
to give them.
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But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened
not to thy commandments,
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And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou
didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to
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