Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Nehemiah 12:40
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The two thanksgiving choirs then stood in the house of God, as did I, along with the half of the officials accompanying me,
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So stood the two [companies of them that gave] thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
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So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I and the half of the rulers with me;
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So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;
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Nehemiah 12
38 The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,
39 over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
40 The two thanksgiving choirs then stood in the house of God, as did I, along with the half of the officials accompanying me,
41 as well as the priests with their trumpets—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah—
42 and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the choirs sang out under the direction of Jezrahiah.
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