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Nehemiah 9:1

Nehemiah 9:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

Now: On the first of this month was the feast of trumpets; on the tenth, the day of atonement; on the fourteenth began the feast of tabernacles, which lasted seven days, ending on the twenty- second; on the twenty-third, they separated themselves from their illegitimate wives; and on the twenty-fourth, they held a solemn day of fasting and confession of sin, and reading the law; the whole of which they closed by renewing their covenants.

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