Book of Nehemiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 933
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
the people by saying ‘ Go! for to—day is sacred to the Evzx——x.1v1Nc, so do not be in grief} ‘ So all the People went to eat and
drink, and to send presents, and to make plenty of pleasure, because they understood what had been said to them. But, the day after the Heads of
Houses of all the People with the Priests and the Levites collected to Ezra the Scholar, to examine the records ofthe Law, and found written in the Law which the EVER-L1v1NG communicated by means of Moses, that the Children of Israel should reside in tents in the seventh month. They consequently proclaimed, and passed the proclamation to all the villages, and to jerusalem to order: ‘Go out to the hills and bring
branches of Olive, and branches of good trees, and branches of Myrtle, and branches of Palms, and branches of brushwood, to make tents as it is written. I`he people consequently went
out, and made themselves tents, each for his family, in their courts, and in the courts of the House of Gon, and in the Square of the Water Gate, and in the Square of the Ephraim Gate. All the company of those who xy had returned hom the Captivity also made tents and resided in the tents, although the Children of Israel had not done so since the times of joshua the son of Nun, till that day, and they enjoyed themselves very greatly. ‘ They also read in the Book of the
Law of GOD day by day, from the first day, to the last day, for they kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they closed it, accord- ing to the decree. ‘ Afterwards, on the twenty·fourtl1
day of that month, the Children of Israel met to fast with sackcloth and earth upon them, when all of the race of Israel separated themselves from all the sons of foreigners, and they stood up and confessed about their sins, and the faults of their forefathers. They also stood up at the Place and read in the Book of the Laws of their Evan~1.1v1No Gon a quarter of the day, and they confessed in sackcloth to their Eva1z·L1v11·zc Gon for a quarter. ‘ Then the Levites jeshua and
Bani, Kadmial, Shebaniah, Buni, Sharbiah, Bani, Kanani arose and cried to their EVER-LIVING GOD with a loud voice, and the Levites Leshua, and Kadmial, Bani and Has abiah, Shanbnah, Hodiah, Pethakaiah rose on the platform and said; ‘ Stand up! ’ Qntlyzur. Sranza r. Thank your Evan·r.1v1N<; Gon For ever and ever; And bless His Glorious name l And exalt beyond all blessing and praise! Smnza 2. ‘ You are alone the Llsz, Who made the skies, and Heaven of Heavens, And all their host!
The Earth, and all upon it, The Seas, and all they contain, And You gave life to them all, And the host of Heavens all bow To You! You are the Loan Gon who chose Abram, and brought him from Aurl of the Kasdim, and made his
1 No·rn.——Ch. g, v. 7, Heb. Ava signided
and is so interpreted by the Rabbis, but by us usually taken for the name of an known Citor Town. I confess to a leani unK ng towards thin ing the Hebrew tradition that it into which the Kasdim threw name Father-of-Nations} and found his heart faithful before You, and 18 made a Covenant with him, to give Abram for refusing their idolatry, is the true reading.—F. F. ¤ Nora. -· Ch. e, v. 7. Ab:-alram Father of Nations’ in Heb. Excetb , py a trnséation the force of the words s lost a O'2'1
