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THE BOOK OF
NEHEMIAH
CHAPTER 8
  8 So they read in the book in the alaw of God bdistinctly, and cgave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

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b
Jacob 4: 13 (13-14).
  13 Behold, my brethren, he that prophesieth, let him prophesy to the understanding of men; for the aSpirit speaketh the btruth and lieth not. Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they really care, and of things as they really will be; wherefore, these things are manifested unto us dplainly, for the salvation of our souls. But behold, we are not witnesses alone in these things; for God also espake them unto prophets of old.
c
OR expanded the meaning. It is held by some that the explanation was in Aramaic; thus the first translating (Targum) of the scriptures occurred.
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