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Lexicon :: Strong's H2320 - ḥōḏeš

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חֹדֶשׁ
Transliteration
ḥōḏeš
Pronunciation
kho'-desh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 613b

Strong’s Definitions

חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh, kho'-desh; from H2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x

The KJV translates Strong's H2320 in the following manner: month (254x), new moon (20x), monthly (1x), another (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x
The KJV translates Strong's H2320 in the following manner: month (254x), new moon (20x), monthly (1x), another (1x).

  1. the new moon, month, monthly

    1. the first day of the month

    2. the lunar month

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh, kho'-desh; from H2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.
STRONGS H2320: Abbreviations
I. חֹ֫דֶשׁ 282 noun masculineGenesis 7:11 (feminine MT Genesis 38:24 but masculine Sam Di) (newness), new moon, month (on formation compare LgBN 144; on usage, names, etc., Muss-ArnJBL 1892, 72 ff., 160 ff.) — ח׳ absolute Genesis 7:11 +; construct (rare) Genesis 29:14 +; suffix חָדְשׁוֺ Numbers 28:14 + 2 times; חָדְשָׁהּ Hosea 2:13; Jeremiah 2:24; plural חֳדָשִׁים Genesis 38:24 +; construct חָדְשֵׁי Exodus 12:2 + 2 times; suffix חֳדָשָׁיו Job 14:5 + 2 times; חָדְשֵׁיכֶם Isaiah 1:14; Numbers 28:11; חָדְשֵׁכֶם Numbers 10:10; —
†1. new moon = day, time, of new moon, as religious festival 1 Samuel 20:5, 18, 24, 27, 34 (Dr); compare יאֹכְלֵם ח׳ Hosea 5:7 a new moon shall devour them, Hi St VB, but on text see We; usually || שַׁבָּת Amos 8:5; 2 Kings 4:23; Isaiah 1:13 (+ קְרֹא מִקְרָא), מִדֵּי חֹדֶשׁ בְּחָדְשׁוֺ Isaiah 66:23, Ezekiel 46:1, 6 (both יוֺם הַח׳), 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 8:13; 31:3; Nehemiah 10:34 (all + מוֺעֵד), Hosea 2:13; Ezekiel 45:17 (both + חג, מועד); || מוֺעֵד alone Isaiah 1:14; Ezekiel 3:5; || יוֺם חַגֵּנוּ Psalm 81:4; (compare ראֹשׁ הַח׳ Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11; on religious observance of new moon compare DiLv p. 578 f BenzArchäol. § 69); as time of augury in Babylon (astrological prognostication) Isaiah 47:13.
2. month (as beginning with new moon, lunar month; compare BenzArchäol. § 30, but then, without reference to day of beginning);
†a. as measure of time during which Genesis 38:24 (J), Numbers 11:20, 21 (JE), Numbers 9:22 (P), Judges 11:37, 38, 39; Judges 20:47; 1 Samuel 6:1; 1 Samuel 27:7; 2 Samuel 2:11; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 6:11; 2 Samuel 24:8, 13 = 1 Chronicles 21:12; Amos 4:7; 1 Kings 4:7; 1 Kings 5:7; 1 Kings 5:28 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 11:16; 2 Kings 15:8; 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:8; Ezekiel 39:12, 14; 1 Chronicles 3:4; 1 Chronicles 13:14; 2 Chronicles 36:2, 9; Esther 2:12 (3 times in verse). In 1 Samuel 10:27b read probably כְּמֵחֹדֶשׁ for MT כמחרישׁ, and join to 1 Samuel 11:1, so Greek Version of the LXX We Dr (compare Genesis 38:24); in combinations, יָמִים ח׳ a month (of) time (compare יֶרַח ימים Deuteronomy 21:1; 2 Kings 15:13) Genesis 29:14 (J), Numbers 11:20, 26 (JE), ימים ארבעה ח׳ Judges 19:2; of age מִסְפַּר־ח׳ number of his months =length of his life Job 14:5; Job 21:21; compare especially בֶּןחֿ׳ Leviticus 27:6; Numbers 3:15, 22, 28, 34, 39, 40, 43; Numbers 18:16; Numbers 26:22 (all P). †
b. calendar months,
† (1) with names הָאָבִיב ח׳ Exodus 13:4; Exodus 23:15; Exodus 34:18 (twice in verse) (all J E; = 1st month Exodus 12:2 P), Deuteronomy 16:11; זִו ח׳ 1 Kings 6:1 (= 2nd mo. ib.; = יֶרַח זִו 1 Kings 6:37); compare 1 Kings 8:2 (הַשְּׁבִיעִי הַח׳ = יֶרַךְ הָאֵתָנִים), 1 Kings 6:38 (הַשְּׁמִינִי הַח׳ = יֶרַח בּוּל); in the post-exilic books occur Babylonian names (see the several words): — נִיסָן ח׳ Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7 (= 1st mo. Esther 3:7); סִיוָן ח׳ Esther 8:9 = 3rd mo.; כִּסְלֵו ח׳ Zechariah 7:1; Nehemiah 1:1 (= 9th mo. Zechariah 7:1); טֵבֵ֑ת ח׳ Esther 2:16 = 10th mo.; שְׁבָט ח׳ Zechariah 1:7 = 11th mo.; אֲדָר ח׳ Esther 3:7, 13; Esther 8:12; Esther 9:1 in all = 12th mo., Esther 9:15, 17, 19, 21; (compare also אֱלוּל Nehemiah 6:15, without ח׳ or יֶרַךְ; this was 6th mo.; see further SchrCOT Nehemiah 1:1 Benzl.c.). †
(2) merely numbered (chiefly P and late) e.g. הַשֵּׁנִי בַּח׳ Genesis 7:11, compare Genesis 8:4, 5, 14; Leviticus 16:29; Numbers 1:1, 18 (all P) + often P; Deuteronomy 1:3 (P), 1 Kings 12:32; 1 Kings 12:33; 1 Kings 25:1; 1 Kings 25:3; 1 Kings 25:8; 1 Kings 25:25; 1 Kings 25:27; Jeremiah 1:3 + 11 times Jeremiah; Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 32:1; Haggai 1:1, 15; Zechariah 1:1; Zechariah 7:1, 13; 1 Chronicles 12:15, compare entire list 1 Chronicles 27:2-15; 2 Chronicles 3:2 + 12 times 2 Chronicles; Ezra 3:1 + 10 times Ezra; Nehemiah 7:72; Nehemiah 8:2, 14; Esther 3:12; note especially הַזֶּה לָכֶם ראֹשׁ חָדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁוֺן הוּא לָכֶם הַח׳ Exodus 12:2 (P), as implying that the 1st mo. was formerly not in the spring; observe also usage of omitting ח׳, e.g. בָּרִאשׁוֺן = הָר׳ בַּח׳ Genesis 8:13, compare Genesis 8:5; so commonly in Ezekiel: — Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 29:1, 17; Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 33:21; Ezekiel 45:18, 21, 25 + Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 32:17; Ezekiel 45:20 Co; (ח׳ sometimes expressed, see Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 32:1 above; on like usage with יום see יום).
(3) special phrases and usages are: — † עֹלַת חֹדֶשׁ בְּחָדְשׁוֺ לְחָדְשֵׁי שָׁנָה Numbers 28:14 (P; compare יום, and Isaiah 66:23 above 1); מִיּוֺם לְיוֺם וּמֵחֹדֶשׁ לְחֹדֶשׁ Esther 3:7 from day to day and from month to month; חָדְשָׁהּ Jeremiah 2:24 of wild she-ass's mating time.†
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:11; 7:11; 7:11; 8:4; 8:5; 8:5; 8:13; 8:14; 29:14; 29:14; 38:24; 38:24; 38:24; 38:24

Exodus

12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 13:4; 23:15; 34:18

Leviticus

16:29; 27:6

Numbers

1:1; 1:18; 3:15; 3:22; 3:28; 3:34; 3:39; 3:40; 3:43; 9:22; 10:10; 10:10; 11:20; 11:20; 11:21; 11:26; 18:16; 26:22; 28:11; 28:11; 28:14; 28:14

Deuteronomy

1:3; 16:11; 21:1

Judges

11:37; 11:38; 11:39; 19:2; 20:47

1 Samuel

6:1; 10:27; 11:1; 20:5; 20:18; 20:24; 20:27; 20:34; 27:7

2 Samuel

2:11; 5:5; 6:11; 24:8; 24:13

1 Kings

4:7; 5:7; 6:1; 6:37; 6:38; 8:2; 11:16; 12:32; 12:33

2 Kings

4:23; 15:8; 15:13; 23:31; 24:8

1 Chronicles

3:4; 12:15; 13:14; 21:12; 23:31; 27:2; 27:3; 27:4; 27:5; 27:6; 27:7; 27:8; 27:9; 27:10; 27:11; 27:12; 27:13; 27:14; 27:15

2 Chronicles

2:3; 3:2; 8:13; 31:3; 36:2; 36:9

Ezra

3:1

Nehemiah

1:1; 1:1; 2:1; 6:15; 7:72; 8:2; 8:14; 10:34

Esther

2:12; 2:16; 3:7; 3:7; 3:7; 3:7; 3:12; 3:13; 8:9; 8:12; 9:1; 9:15; 9:17; 9:19; 9:21

Job

14:5; 14:5; 21:21

Psalms

81:4

Isaiah

1:13; 1:14; 1:14; 47:13; 66:23; 66:23

Jeremiah

1:3; 2:24; 2:24

Ezekiel

1:1; 3:5; 8:1; 20:1; 24:1; 24:1; 26:1; 29:1; 29:17; 30:20; 31:1; 32:1; 32:1; 32:17; 33:21; 39:12; 39:14; 45:17; 45:18; 45:20; 45:21; 45:25; 46:1; 46:6

Hosea

2:13; 2:13; 5:7

Amos

4:7; 8:5

Haggai

1:1; 1:15

Zechariah

1:1; 1:7; 7:1; 7:1; 7:1; 7:13

H2320

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Strong's Number H2320 matches the Hebrew חֹדֶשׁ (ḥōḏeš),
which occurs 283 times in 224 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 5 (1Ch 3:4–Neh 8:2)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:4 - six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15 - These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:14 - And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that he had.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:31 - and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the LORD on Sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:1 - This is the number of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers’ houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering 24,000:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:2 - Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division in the first month; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:3 - He was a descendant of Perez and was chief of all the commanders. He served for the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:4 - Dodai the Ahohite[fn] was in charge of the division of the second month; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:5 - The third commander, for the third month, was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:7 - Asahel the brother of Joab was fourth, for the fourth month, and his son Zebadiah after him; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:8 - The fifth commander, for the fifth month, was Shamhuth the Izrahite; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:9 - Sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:10 - Seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:11 - Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:12 - Ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer of Anathoth, a Benjaminite; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:13 - Tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai of Netophah, of the Zerahites; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:14 - Eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah of Pirathon, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:15 - Twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; in his division were 24,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, as ordained forever for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:2 - He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:3 - And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:10 - On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity[fn] that the LORD had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:13 - as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10 - They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:3 - In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:17 - They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the LORD. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:2 - For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month—

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:13 - And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15 - And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:3 - The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the Law of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:7 - In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:9 - Jehoiachin was eighteen[fn] years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:1 - When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:5 - and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:6 - From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:8 - Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 - On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:8 - And Ezra[fn] came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 - Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:9 - Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:16 - Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men,[fn] heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:1 - The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:1 - In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73 - So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:2 - So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.

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