TBESH · H9025
נוּ · mu · our
Personal possessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 1st person plural
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נוּ (mu) means “our” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: mu STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
נוּ · mu · our
Personal possessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 1st person plural
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Page 6 of 12. 561 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
And I sent them to Iddo, the leader at Casiphia, with a message for him and his kinsmen, the temple servants at Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
Read word by wordAnd since the gracious hand of our God was upon us, they brought us Sherebiah—a man of insight from the descendants of Mahli son of Levi, the son of Israel—along with his sons and brothers, 18 men;
Read word by wordAnd there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
Read word by wordFor I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”
Read word by wordSo we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.
Read word by wordand I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.
Read word by wordSo the priests and Levites took charge of the silver and gold and sacred articles that had been weighed out to be taken to the house of our God in Jerusalem.
Read word by wordOn the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.
Read word by wordOn the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, along with the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.
Read word by wordand said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
Read word by wordFrom the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.
Read word by wordBut now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.
Read word by wordThough we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
Read word by wordAnd now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments
Read word by wordAfter all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
Read word by wordO LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
Read word by wordThen Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.
Read word by wordSo now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
Read word by wordLet our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”
Read word by wordHear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 3.36
So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.3
And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.5
When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.9
Wherever you hear the sound of the horn, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us!”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.14
So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.17
Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
Read word by wordOthers were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
Read word by wordStill others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
Read word by wordWe and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
Read word by wordand said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
Read word by wordSo I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
Read word by wordWhen Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
Read word by wordWhen all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.
Read word by wordThen Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
Read word by wordYou saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.
Read word by wordBut they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
Read word by wordSo now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
Read word by wordOur kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
Read word by wordSo here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!
Read word by wordIts abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
Read word by wordIn view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.1
hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.30
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.31
We also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.33
for the showbread, for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings, for the Sabbath offerings, for the New Moons and appointed feasts, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the duties of the house of our God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.34
We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.35
We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.36
And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.37
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.38
A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.39
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