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Nehemiah 8:15

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And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as [it is] written.

And that they should publish {H8085} and proclaim {H5674}{H6963} in all their cities {H5892}, and in Jerusalem {H3389}, saying {H559}, Go forth {H3318} unto the mount {H2022}, and fetch {H935} olive {H2132} branches {H5929}, and pine {H8081} branches {H6086}{H5929}, and myrtle {H1918} branches {H5929}, and palm {H8558} branches {H5929}, and branches {H5929} of thick {H5687} trees {H6086}, to make {H6213} booths {H5521}, as it is written {H3789}.

and that they were to announce and pass the word in all their cities and in Yerushalayim, "Go out to the mountains, and collect branches of olives, wild olives, myrtles, palms, and other leafy trees to make sukkot, as prescribed."

So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

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Cross-References

  • Leviticus 23:40 (5 votes)

    And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

  • Leviticus 23:4 (4 votes)

    ¶ These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

  • Deuteronomy 16:16 (4 votes)

    Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

  • Matthew 21:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,

  • Genesis 8:11 (2 votes)

    And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

  • Judges 9:48 (2 votes)

    And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that [were] with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid [it] on his shoulder, and said unto the people that [were] with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, [and] do as I [have done].

  • Judges 9:49 (2 votes)

    And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.