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Nehemiah 1:6-8
New English Translation

6 may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed[a] against you—both I myself and my family[b] have sinned. 7 We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses. 8 Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: ‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:6 tn Heb “have sinned.” For stylistic reasons—to avoid redundancy in English—this was translated as “committed.”
  2. Nehemiah 1:6 tn Heb “the house of my father.”
  3. Nehemiah 1:8 tn Heb “peoples.”
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