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584 Book of Nehemias

they kept the solemnity seven days, and in the give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Het-
eighth day a solemn assembly according to the hite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite,
manner. and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give
it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words,
because thou art just.
Chapter 9 9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers

in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the
And in the four and twentieth day of the month Red Sea.
the children of Israel came together with fasting
10 And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon
and with sackcloth, and earth upon them. Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the
2 And the seed of the children of Israel sepa- people of his land: for thou knewest that they
rated themselves from every stranger: and they
dealt proudly against them: and thou madest
stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities thyself a name, as it is at this day.
of their fathers. 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them,
3 And they rose up to stand: and they read in and they passed through the midst of the sea on
the book of the law of the Lord their God, four dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest
times in the day, and four times they confessed, into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.
and adored the Lord their God. 12 And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their
4 And there stood up upon the step of the leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that
Levites, Josue, and Bani, and Cedmihel, Saba- they might see the way by which they went.
nia, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and 13 Thou camest down also to mount Sinai,
they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their and didst speak with them from heaven, and
God. thou gavest them right judgments, and the law
5 And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.
Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Oduia, Sebnia, and 14 Thou madest known to them thy holy sab-
Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God bath, and didst prescribe to them command-
from eternity to eternity: and blessed be the high ments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand
name of thy glory with all blessing and praise. of Moses thy servant.
6 Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made 15 And thou gavest them bread from heaven
heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all the in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for
host thereof: the earth and all things that are in them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou
it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and pos-
givest life to all these things, and the host of sess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up
heaven adoreth thee. thy hand to give it them.
7 Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and
Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy
of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of commandments.
Abraham. 17 And they would not hear, and they remem-
8 And thou didst find his heart faithful before bered not thy wonders which thou hadst done
thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to for them. And they hardened their necks, and