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Jewish 1105 · Rashi on the Prophets and Writings, Nehemiah 9:8

Rashi, on Neh 9:8

Rashi · 1040–1105
Neh 9:8 · Douay-Rheims
“And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.”
On this verse:
“and You made Heb. וְכָרוֹת, lit. and cutting, an expression of doing.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

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