OLD TESTAMENT

Nehemiah 9:1

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Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.

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Verse 1. Month; Tizri, the day after they had sent away those women, ( Calmet.) whose company now covered them with confusion. Bible.—They were moved to compunction, by the hearing of the law, read by Esdras. Menochius.

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