RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

of Sichon, and the land of the melech of Cheshbon, and
the land of Og melech of Bashan.
23 Their children also You multiplied as the cochavim of
the shamayim, and brought them into the land, concerning
which You had promised to their ahvot, that they should
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24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and
You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the
Kanaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their
melechim, and the people of the land, that they might do
with them, as they desired.
25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and
possessed houses full of all items, wells dug, vineyards,
and olive-yards, and fruit eytzim in abundance: so they
did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted
themselves in Your great tov.
26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled
against You, and cast Your Torah behind their backs, and
killed Your neviim that testified against them to turn them
to You, and they worked great provocations.
27 Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their
enemies, who distressed them: and in the time of their
trouble, when they cried to You, You heard them from the
shamayim; and according to Your manifold rachamim
You gave them saviors, who saved them out of the hand
of their enemies.
28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before You:
therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies, so
that they had the dominion over them: yet when they
returned, and cried to You, You heard them from the
shamayim; and many times You did deliver them
according to Your rachamim;
29 And testified against them, that You might bring them
again to Your Torah: yet they dealt proudly, and listened
not to Your commandments, but sinned against Your
mishpatim – which if a man does, he shall live in them –
and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and
would not listen.
30 Yet for many years You had patience with them, and
testified against them by Your Ruach through Your
neviim: yet they would not pay attention: therefore You
gave them into the hands of the people of the lands.
31 Nevertheless for Your great rachamim’s sake You did
not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for You are
an El of unmerited favor and rachamim.
32 Now therefore, our Elohim, the great, the mighty, and
the awesome El, who keeps His brit and rachamim, let not
all the trouble seem little before You, that has come upon
us, on our melechim, on our heads, and on our Kohanim,
and on our neviim, and on our ahvot, and on all Your
people, since the time of the melechim of Ashshur to this
day.
33 Yet You are just in all that has been brought upon us;
for You have done right, but we have done wickedly:
34 Neither have our melechim, our heads, our Kohanim,
or our ahvot, kept Your Torah, nor listened to Your
mitzvoth and Your testimonies, with which You did
testify against them.
35 For they have not served You in their malchut, and in
Your great tov that You gave them, and in the large and
rich land which You gave them, neither did they turn
from their wicked works.
36 Behold, we are avadim this day, and for the land that
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You gave to our ahvot to eat its fruit and its tov, behold,
we are avadim in it:
37 And it yields much increase to the melechim whom
You have set over us because of our sins: also they have
dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their
pleasure, and we are in great distress.
38 And because of all this we make a sure pledge, and
write it; and our heads, the Lewiym, and Kohanim, set
their seal on it.
Now those that sealed were, Nechemyah, the
governor, the son of Hachaliyah, and Tzidkiyah,
2 Serayah, Azaryah, Yirmeyahu,
3 Pashur, Amaryah, Malchiyah,
4 Hattush, Shevanyah, Malluch,
5 Harim, Meremoth, Ovadyah,
6 Dani-El, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7 Meshullam, Aviyah, Miyamin,
8 Maatzyah, Bilgai, Shemayah: these were the Kohanim.
9 And the Lewiym: both Yeshua the son of Azanyah,
Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmi–El;
10 And their brothers, Shevanyah, Hodiyah, Kelita,
Pelayah, Chanan,
11 Micha, Rechov, Hashviyah,
12 Zaccur, Sherevyah, Shevanyah,
13 Hodiyah, Bani, Beninu.
14 The heads of the people; Parosh, Pahath-Moav, Eylam,
Zatthu, Bani,
15 Bunni, Azgad, Bevai,
16 Adoniyah, Bigvai, Adin,
17 Ater, Hizkiyah, Azzur,
18 Hodiyah, Hashum, Betzai,
19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nevai,
20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
21 Meshezave-El, Tzadok, Yahdua,
22 Pelatyah, Chanan, Anayah,
23 Hoshea, Hananyah, Hashuv,
24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shovek,
25 Rehum, Hashavnah, Maaseyah,
26 And Achiyah, Chanan, Anan,
27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28 And the rest of the people, the Kohanim, the Lewiym,
the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they
that had separated themselves from the people of the
lands to the Torah of Elohim, their wives, their sons, and
their daughters, everyone having da’at, and having binah;
29 They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and
entered into a curse, and into an oath, to have their
halacha in Elohim’s Torah, which was given by Moshe
the eved of Elohim, and to shomer and do all the mitzvoth
of vuvh our Master, and His mishpatim and His chukim;
30 And that we would not give our daughters as wives to
the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters as wives
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31 And if the people of the land bring items, or any food
on the Shabbat day to sell, that we would not buy it from
them on the Shabbat, or on a kadosh day: and that we
would rest in the shmeta-seventh year, and remove every
debt due us.
32 Also we made commands for ourselves, to give yearly
one-third part of a shekel for the service of the Bayit of
our Elohim;
33 For the Lechem ha Panayim, and for the continual