Nehemiah 8:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 3 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

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.

Nehemiah 8:8 Cross References

2 Kings 23:2

He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.

Ezra 4:18

3 Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.

Nehemiah 8:12

7 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.

Nehemiah 8:7

2 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.

Nehemiah 8:9

4 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:

Nehemiah 9:3

And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.

Ezekiel 46:10

8 And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by violence, nor of their possession : but out of his own possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed every man from his possession.

Habakkuk 2:2

0 Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned.

Luke 24:27

5 And they told what things were done in the way; and how they knew him in the breaking of the bread.

Luke 24:32

0 And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and feet.

Luke 24:45

3 And they were always in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

Acts 28:23

1 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without prohibition.