Nehemiah 9:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁸ Because of all this we make a firm agreement in writing, and on that sealed document are inscribed the names of our officials, our Levites, and our priests.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ Because of all this, we make a firm and sure written covenant, and our princes, Levites, and priests set their seal to it.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal unto it.

Common English Bible

³⁸ Because of all this, we are making a firm agreement in writing, with the names of our officials, our Levites, and our priests on the seal.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ Therefore, concerning all of these things, we ourselves are forming and writing a covenant, and our leaders, our Levites, and our priests are signing it."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write it: and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.

Nehemiah 9:38 Cross References

2 Kings 23:3

The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. All the people joined in the covenant.

2 Chronicles 23:16

Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the Lord’s people.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

2 Chronicles 34:31

The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

Ezra 10:3

So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the law.

Nehemiah 10:1

Upon the sealed document are the names of Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah;

Nehemiah 10:29

join with their kin, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.

Isaiah 44:5

This one will say, “I am the Lord’s”; another will be called by the name of Jacob; yet another will write on the hand, “The Lord’s,” and adopt the name of Israel.

Matthew 27:66

So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.