Nehemiah 8:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And the Levites are keeping all the people silent, saying, `Be silent, for to-day `is' holy, and be not grieved.'

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  • Num 13:30 : 30 And Caleb stilleth the people concerning Moses, and saith, `Let us certainly go up -- and we have possessed it; for we are thoroughly able for it.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 8:7-10
    4 verses
    77%

    7And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, giving the people understanding in the law, and the people, `are' on their station,

    8and they read in the book, in the law of God, explaining -- so as to give the meaning, and they give understanding to the convocation.

    9And Nehemiah -- he `is' the Tirshatha -- saith (and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who are instructing the people) to all the people, `To-day is holy to Jehovah your God, do not mourn, nor weep:' for all the people are weeping at their hearing the words of the law.

    10And he saith to them, `Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day `is' holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.'

  • Neh 8:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12And all the people go to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great joy, because they have understood concerning the words that they made known to them.

    13And on the second day have been gathered heads of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to act wisely concerning the words of the law.

  • Zeph 1:7
    73%

    7Hush! because of the Lord Jehovah, For near `is' a day of Jehovah, For prepared hath Jehovah a sacrifice, He hath sanctified His invited ones.

  • Ezra 3:13
    70%

    13and the people are not discerning the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people are shouting -- a great shout -- and the noise hath been heard unto a distance.

  • Deut 27:14
    69%

    14`And the Levites have answered and said unto every man of Israel -- a loud voice:

  • Num 29:35
    69%

    35`On the eighth day a restraint ye have, ye do no servile work;

  • Hab 2:20
    69%

    20And Jehovah `is' in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!

  • Hos 9:5
    69%

    5What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival?

  • Josh 6:10
    69%

    10and the people hath Joshua commanded, saying, `Ye do not shout, nor cause your voice to be heard, nor doth there go out from your mouth a word, till the day of my saying unto you, Shout ye -- then ye have shouted.'

  • 2 Chr 30:21-23
    3 verses
    69%

    21And the sons of Israel, those found in Jerusalem, make the feast of unleavened things seven days with great joy; and giving praise to Jehovah day by day are the Levites and the priests, with instruments of praise before Jehovah.

    22And Hezekiah speaketh unto the heart of all the Levites, those giving good understanding concerning Jehovah, and they eat the appointed thing seven days; sacrificing sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Jehovah, God of their fathers.

    23And all the assembly take counsel to keep other seven days, and they keep seven days `with' joy;

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
    69%

    36And the people have kept silent, and have not answered him a word, for the command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'

  • Zech 2:13
    68%

    13Hush, all flesh, because of Jehovah, For He hath been roused up from His holy habitation!'

  • Num 18:5
    68%

    5and ye have kept the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel.

  • Num 29:12
    68%

    12`And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month a holy convocation ye have; ye do no servile work; and ye have celebrated a festival to Jehovah seven days,

  • 2 Chr 29:5
    68%

    5And he saith to them, `Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary,

  • 2 Chr 30:27
    68%

    27and the priests, the Levites, rise and bless the people, and their voice is heard, and their prayer cometh in to His holy habitation, to the heavens.

  • Num 28:25
    68%

    25and on the seventh day a holy convocation ye have, ye do no servile work.

  • Neh 12:27
    68%

    27And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them in to Jerusalem, to make the dedication even with gladness, and with thanksgivings, and with singing, `with' cymbals, psalteries, and with harps;

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    68%

    4And he saith to the people, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give the portion of the priests, and of the Levites, so that they are strengthened in the law of Jehovah;

  • Lev 23:28
    68%

    28and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God.

  • Job 13:5
    68%

    5O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

  • Neh 8:18
    68%

    18And he readeth in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day till the last day, and they make a feast seven days, and on the eighth day a restraint, according to the ordinance.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    67%

    6`And none doth enter the house of Jehovah except the priests, and those ministering of the Levites (they go in for they `are' holy), and all the people keep the watch of Jehovah:

  • Neh 12:43-44
    2 verses
    67%

    43and they sacrifice on that day great sacrifices and rejoice, for God hath made them rejoice `with' great joy, and also, the women and the children have rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem is heard -- unto a distance.

    44And certain are appointed on that day over the chambers for treasures, for heave-offerings, for first-fruits, and for tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for priests, and for Levites, for the joy of Judah `is' over the priests, and over the Levites, who are standing up.

  • Neh 12:47
    67%

    47And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, are giving the portions of the singers, and of the gatekeepers, the matter of a day in its day, and are sanctifying to the Levites, and the Levites are sanctifying to the sons of Aaron.

  • Isa 14:7
    67%

    7At rest -- quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth `into' singing.

  • Job 29:10
    67%

    10The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.

  • Lev 10:3
    67%

    3And Moses saith unto Aaron, `It `is' that which Jehovah hath spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honoured;' and Aaron is silent.

  • Lev 23:35
    67%

    35on the first day `is' a holy convocation, ye do no servile work,

  • Neh 8:1
    67%

    1And all the people are gathered as one man unto the broad place that `is' before the water-gate, and they say to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, that Jehovah commanded Israel.

  • Lev 23:7
    67%

    7on the first day ye have a holy convocation, ye do no servile work;

  • Num 28:18
    67%

    18in the first day `is' an holy convocation, ye do no servile work,

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    67%

    11And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the sanctuary -- for all the priests who are present have sanctified themselves, there is none to watch by courses,

  • Jer 16:9
    67%

    9For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.

  • Lev 8:34
    67%

    34as he hath done on this day, Jehovah hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you;

  • Neh 9:5
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    5And the Levites say, `even' Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, `Rise, bless Jehovah your God, from the age unto the age, and they bless the name of Thine honour that `is' exalted above all blessing and praise.

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    8Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.

  • Deut 27:9
    67%

    9And Moses speaketh -- the priests, the Levites, also -- unto all Israel, saying, `Keep silent, and hear, O Israel, this day thou hast become a people to Jehovah thy God;

  • Exod 14:14
    67%

    14Jehovah doth fight for you, and ye keep silent.'

  • Ezra 8:28
    67%

    28And I say unto them, `Ye `are' holy to Jehovah, and the vessels `are' holy, and the silver and the gold `are' a willing-offering to Jehovah, God of your fathers;

  • Num 1:53
    67%

    53and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

  • Isa 36:21
    67%

    21And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'