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Nehemiah 8:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The whole community that had returned from exile  made shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not celebrated like this from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day.  And there was tremendous joy.

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He followed the daily requirement  for offerings according to the commandment of Moses  for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.


They celebrated the Festival of Shelters as prescribed, and offered burnt offerings each day, based on the number specified by ordinance for each festival day.


These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance,  greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.


By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise.


For if Joshua  had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.


The Word  became flesh  and dwelt  among us. We observed his glory,  the glory as the one and only  Son  from the Father, full of grace and truth.


No Passover had been observed  like it in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present in Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


There was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for nothing like this was known since the days of Solomon son of David, the king of Israel.


They ate and drank with great joy in the Lord’s presence that day. Then, for a second time,  they made David’s son Solomon king; they anointed him  as the Lord’s ruler,  and Zadok as the priest.


After the death of Moses  the Lord’s servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun,  Moses’s assistant:


You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place he chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands,  and you will have abundant joy.





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