Nehemiah 1:9

1:9 But if you repent ¹  and obey ²  my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, ³  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

Nehemiah 5:8

5:8 I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews ⁴  who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, ⁵  so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Nehemiah 6:6

6:6 Written in it were the following words:

“Among the nations it is rumored ⁶  (and Geshem ⁷  has substantiated ⁸  this) that you and the Jews have intentions of revolting, and for this reason you are building the wall. Furthermore, according to these rumors ⁹  you are going to become their king.

Nehemiah 9:8

9:8 When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a ¹⁰  covenant with him to give his descendants ¹¹  the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, ¹²  for you are righteous.

Nehemiah 10:28

10:28 “Now the rest of the people – the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples ¹³  because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand –

Nehemiah 10:34

10:34 “We – the priests, the Levites, and the people – have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families ¹⁴  at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law.

Nehemiah 13:22

13:22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

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¹ tn Heb “turn to me.”

² tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

³ tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”

⁴ tn Heb “our brothers, the Jews.”

⁵ tn Heb “your brothers.”

⁶ tn Heb “heard.”

⁷ tn Heb “Gashmu”; in Neh 2:19 this name appears as Geshem. Since it is important for the modern reader to recognize that this is the same individual, the form of the name used here in the translation is the same as that in v. 19.

⁸ tn Heb “is saying.”

⁹ tn Heb “words.” So also in v. 7.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the” (so NAB).

¹¹ tn Heb “seed.”

¹² tn Heb “your words.”

¹³ tn Heb “from the peoples of the lands.” Cf. vv. 30, 31.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the house of our fathers.”