Nehemiah 9:13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave…”

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

World English Bible

“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

American Standard Version

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes, ordinances and good commandements,

Darby Translation

And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.

Young's Literal Translation

'And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands.

Bible in Basic English

And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

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Cross references

“camest”

Exodus 19:11 Exodus 19:16–20 Isaiah 64:1 Isaiah 64:3 Deuteronomy 33:2 Habakkuk 3:3

Exodus 19:11 · BSB

and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Exodus 19:16–20 · BSB

On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

Isaiah 64:1 · BSB

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

Isaiah 64:3 · BSB

When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.

Deuteronomy 33:2 · BSB

He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

Habakkuk 3:3 · BSB

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

“spakest”

Exodus 20:1 Deuteronomy 5:22–26 Exodus 20:22 Deuteronomy 4:33 Deuteronomy 5:4 Deuteronomy 4:10–13

Exodus 20:1 · BSB

And God spoke all these words:

Deuteronomy 5:22–26 · BSB

The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them t…

Exodus 20:22 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is what you are to tell the Israelites: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:33 · BSB

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 5:4 · BSB

The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

Deuteronomy 4:10–13 · BSB

The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them…

“gavest”

Psalm 19:7–11 Ezekiel 20:11–13 Romans 7:12–14 Deuteronomy 4:8 Romans 7:16 Deuteronomy 10:12

Psalm 19:7–11 · BSB

The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Ezekiel 20:11–13 · BSB

And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.

Romans 7:12–14 · BSB

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Deuteronomy 4:8 · BSB

And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

Romans 7:16 · BSB

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

Deuteronomy 10:12 · BSB

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

“true laws”

Psalm 119:160

Psalm 119:160 · BSB

The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.

Also

Psalm 119:137

Psalm 119:137 · BSB

Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.

14You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

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