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Nehemiah 9:2-5

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9:2 Those truly of Israelite descent¹ separated from all the foreigners,² standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.³ 9:3 For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins⁴ and worshiping the LORD their God. 9:4 Then the Levites – Jeshua, Binnui,⁵ Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani – stood on the steps and called out loudly⁶ to the LORD their God. 9:5 The Levites – Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah – said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God!”

“May you be blessed, O LORD our God, from age to age.⁷ May your glorious name⁸ be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.

¹tn Heb “the seed of Israel.”

²tn Heb “sons of a foreigner.”

³tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 16, 23, 32, 34, 36).

⁴tn Heb “confessing.” The words “their sins” are not present in the Hebrew text of v. 3, but are clearly implied here because they are explicitly stated in v. 2.

⁵tc Heb “Bani.” The translation reads “Binnui” (so also NAB) rather than the MT reading “Bani.” Otherwise there are two individuals with the same name in this verse. The name “Binnui” appears, for example, in Neh 10:10.

⁶tn Heb “in a great voice.”

⁷tc The MT reads here only “from age to age,” without the preceding words “May you be blessed, O LORD our God” which are included in the present translation. But apparently something has dropped out of the text. This phrase occurs elsewhere in the OT as a description of the Lord (see Ps 41:13; 106:48), and it seems best to understand it here in that light. The LXX adds “And Ezra said” at the beginning of v. 6 as a transition: “And Ezra said, ‘You alone are the LORD.” Without this addition (which is not included by most modern English translations) the speakers of vv. 9:5b-10:1 continue to be the Levites of v. 5a.

⁸tn Heb “the name of your glory.”

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