Nehemiah 9:13
Good News Translation
At Mount Sinai you came down from heaven; you spoke to your people and gave them good laws and sound teachings.

New Revised Standard Version
You came down also upon Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

Contemporary English Version
At Sinai you came down from heaven, and you gave your people good laws and teachings that are fair and honest.

New American Bible
On Mount Sinai you came down, you spoke with them from heaven; You gave them just ordinances, true laws, good statutes and commandments;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.

camest

Exodus 19:11,16-20 And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai. . . .

Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law.

Isaiah 64:1,3 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence. . . .

Habakkuk 3:3 God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

spakest

Exodus 20:1,22 And the Lord spoke all these words: . . .

Deuteronomy 4:10-13,33 From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:4,22-26 He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire. . . .

Hebrews 12:18-26 For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a burning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm, . . .

gavest

Deuteronomy 4:8 For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes?

Deuteronomy 10:12,13 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: . . .

Psalm 19:7-11 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 119:127,128 Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz. . . .

Ezekiel 20:11-13 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. . . .

Romans 7:12-14 Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and just and good. . . .

Romans 7:16 If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.

true laws.

Psalm 119:160 The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever.

Context
The People Confess Their Sins
12And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went. 13Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.14Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy servant.…
Cross References
Exodus 16:23
And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.

Exodus 19:11
And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.

Exodus 19:18
And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Exodus 19:20
And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone up thither,

Exodus 20:1
And the Lord spoke all these words:

Exodus 20:22
And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:36
From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach thee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,

Psalm 19:7
The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

Psalm 119:4
Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.

Nehemiah 9:12
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