Nehemiah 9:2 - Easy To Read Version2 Those people that were true Israelites separated themselves from foreigners. The Israelites stood \{in the temple\} and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors. {\cf2\super [49]} Féach an chaibidilTuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 17692 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. Féach an chaibidilAmplified Bible - Classic Edition2 And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. Féach an chaibidilAmerican Standard Version (1901)2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. Féach an chaibidilCommon English Bible2 After the Israelites separated themselves from all of the foreigners, they stood to confess their sins and the terrible behavior of their ancestors. Féach an chaibidilCatholic Public Domain Version2 And the offspring of the sons of Israel were separated from all the sons of foreigners. And they stood up, and they confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. Féach an chaibidilDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version2 And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. Féach an chaibidil |
So all the people of Israel that came back from captivity ate the Passover meal. Other people washed themselves and made themselves pure from the unclean {\cf2\super [40]} things of the people living in that country. Those pure people also shared in the Passover meal. Those people did this so they could go to the Lord, the God of Israel, for help.
After we finished all these things, the leaders of the people of Israel came to me. They said, “Ezra, the people of Israel have not kept themselves separate from the other people living around us. And the priests and the Levites have not kept themselves separate. The people of Israel are being influenced by the very bad things done by the Canaanite people, the Hittite people, the Perizzite people, the Jebusite people, the Ammonite people, the Moabite people, the people from Egypt, and the Amorite people.
Please open your eyes and ears and listen to the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night. I am praying for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we people of Israel have done against you. I am confessing that I have sinned against you and that the other people in my father’s family have sinned against you.