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Neemias 8:5
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- CondensedParallel Translations
E Esdras abriu o livro perante vista de todo o povo; porque estava acima de todo o povo; e, abrindo-o ele, todo o povo se ps em p.
E Esdras abriu o livro perante os olhos de todo o povo; porque estava acima de todo o povo; e, abrindo-o ele, todo o povo se ps em p.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
opened: Luke 4:16, Luke 4:17
sight: Heb. eyes
stood up: Judges 3:20, 1 Kings 8:14
Reciprocal: Joshua 22:33 - blessed 2 Chronicles 6:3 - all the congregation
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people),.... So plainly seen by them, and what he did, and the more easily heard, for which purpose the pulpit was made for him to stand in:
and, when he opened it, all the people stood up; that they might the better hear the law read, as well as in honour and reverence of it; the Jews say m, that from the times of Moses to Rabban Gamaliel, they learned the law only standing; but after his death a disease came into the world, and they learned it sitting; and now it is a canon with them, that it is not necessary to stand at the reading of the law n.
m T. Bab. Megillah, fol. 21. 1. n Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. Orach Chayim, c. 146. sect. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Stood up - The attitude of attention and respect. Compare the existing practice of the Christian Church at the reading of the Gospel for the day.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Nehemiah 8:5. All the people stood up — This was out of respect to the sacred word: in imitation of this, when the gospel for the day is read in our churches, all the people stand up.
