Nehemiah 8:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So they read from the Book of the Law of God distinctly, faithfully amplifying and giving the sense so that [the people] understood the reading.

American Standard Version (1901)

And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

Common English Bible

They read aloud from the scroll, the Instruction from God, explaining and interpreting it so the people could understand what they heard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they read from the book of the law of God, distinctly and plainly, so as to be understood. And when it was read, they did understand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly to be understood: and they understood when it was read.

Nehemiah 8:8 Cross References

2 Kings 23:2

The king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him went all the people of Judah, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.

Ezra 4:18

the letter that you sent to us has been read in translation before me.

Nehemiah 8:12

And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

Nehemiah 8:7

Also the Levites Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah helped the people to understand the law, while the people remained in their places.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 9:3

They stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth part of the day, and for another fourth they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.

Ezekiel 46:10

When they come in, the prince shall come in with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

Habakkuk 2:2

Then the Lord answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it.

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.

Luke 24:32

They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”

Luke 24:45

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

Acts 28:23

After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his lodgings in great numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.