Nehemiah 8:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ On the second day the heads of ancestral houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ On the second day, all the heads of fathers' houses, with the priests and Levites, gathered to Ezra the scribe to study and understand the words of divine instruction.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And on the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the law.

Common English Bible

¹³ On the second day, the heads of the families of all the people, along with the priests and the Levites, gathered together around Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Instruction.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And on the second day, the leaders of the families of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, so that he might interpret for them the words of the law.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ 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.

Nehemiah 8:13 Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:23

Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the festival for another seven days, so they kept it for another seven days with gladness.

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 8:14

And they found it written in the law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the Israelites should live in booths during the festival of the seventh month

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid.

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?”

Acts 13:42

As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people urged them to speak about these things again the next Sabbath.

Acts 4:1

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came to them,