Re:Verse passage – Nehemiah 8:9-12 (day three)
“For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the law.”
For these Jews, the words of the law were not just a solemn recitation. These words of the law were the history of their own people’s interactions with God. They heard Moses’s cry: “Hear, O Israel.” And they couldn’t breathe. Moses was alive again, calling out to them to remember the sweep of history, the rescue from Egypt, the passing through the sea, the manna from heaven, the water from the rock, the Ten Commandments, the year of Jubilee, the welcome to the foreigner, the God who hears from heaven – all of it. They heard, and they remembered. Even those who might not have ever heard these exact words heard the word that fit their souls as if they were now home. And they were.
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