Nehemiah 8:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ And they read from the book, from the law of God, clearly; and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

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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

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

Ezra 4:18

the letter which you sent to us has been plainly read 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 Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Ma-aseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, 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

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

Ezekiel 46:10

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

Habakkuk 2:2

And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets, so he may run who reads it.

Luke 24:27

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

Luke 24:32

They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?”

Luke 24:45

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

Acts 28:23

When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in great numbers. And he expounded the matter to them from morning till evening, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.