12 Then they said, “We will restore these and (A)require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and (B)made them swear (C)to do as they had promised. 13 (D)I also shook out the fold[a] of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” (E)And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 5:13 Hebrew bosom

12 “We will give it back,” they said. “And we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.”

Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath(A) to do what they had promised. 13 I also shook(B) out the folds of my robe and said, “In this way may God shake out of their house and possessions anyone who does not keep this promise. So may such a person be shaken out and emptied!”

At this the whole assembly said, “Amen,”(C) and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.

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12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.

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12 so that you may enter into the (A)sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today,

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12 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,

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12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:

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14 It is not with you alone (A)that I am making this sworn covenant,

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14 I am making this covenant,(A) with its oath, not only with you

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14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

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106 I have (A)sworn an oath and confirmed it,
    to keep your (B)righteous rules.

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106 I have taken an oath(A) and confirmed it,
    that I will follow your righteous laws.(B)

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106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

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