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Nehemiah 8:13

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the second: 2 Chronicles 30:23; Proverbs 2:1-6, Proverbs 8:33-34, Proverbs 12:1; Mark 6:33-34; Luke 19:47-48; Acts 4:1; Acts 13:42

to understand the words of the law: or, that they might instruct in the words of the law, Nehemiah 8:7-8; Luke 24:32; 2 Timothy 2:24-25

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