Nehemiah 1:8-10

1:8 Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: ‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations. ¹  1:9 But if you repent ²  and obey ³  my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, ⁴  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’ 1:10 They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.

[1:8]  ¹ tn Heb “peoples.”

[1:9]  ² tn Heb “turn to me.”

[1:9]  ³ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[1:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”