Nehemiah 9:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.

New Living Translation
You sent your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst.

English Standard Version
You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.

Berean Study Bible
You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

New American Standard Bible
“Instead, You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.

NASB 1995
"You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.

NASB 1977
“And Thou didst give Thy good Spirit to instruct them, Thy manna Thou didst not withhold from their mouth, And Thou didst give them water for their thirst.

Amplified Bible
“You [also] gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.

Christian Standard Bible
You sent your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You sent Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

Contemporary English Version
Your gentle Spirit instructed them, and you gave them manna to eat and water to drink.

Good News Translation
In your goodness you told them what they should do; you fed them manna and gave them water to drink.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You gave them your good Spirit to teach them. You didn't keep your manna to yourself. You gave them water to quench their thirst.

International Standard Version
"You gave your good Spirit to instruct them, not withholding manna from them, and providing water to quench their thirst.

NET Bible
You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

New King James Version
You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, And gave them water for their thirst.

King James 2000 Bible
You gave also your good spirit to instruct them, and withheld not your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

New Heart English Bible
You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

World English Bible
You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

American King James Version
You gave also your good spirit to instruct them, and withheld not your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

American Standard Version
Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

A Faithful Version
You also gave Your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

English Revised Version
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thou gauest also thy good Spirite to instruct them, & withheldest not thy MAN from their mouth, & gauest them water for their thirst.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And thou gauest them thy good spirite to enfourme them, and withheldest not thy Manna from their mouth, and gauest them water when they were thirstie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And thou gauest them thy good sprete to enfourme them, and withheldest not thy Manna from their mouth, and gauest the water wha they were thirstie.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And Your good Spirit You have given, "" To cause them to act wisely; And Your manna You have not withheld from their mouth, "" And water You have given to them for their thirst,

Young's Literal Translation
'And Thy good Spirit Thou hast given, to cause them to act wisely; and Thy manna Thou hast not withheld from their mouth, and water Thou hast given to them for their thirst,

Smith's Literal Translation
And thy good spirit thou gavest to instruct them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and water gavest thou to them for their thirst.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And you gave them your good Spirit, so that he might teach them, and you did not withhold your manna from their mouth, and you gave them water in their thirst.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And your good Spirit you gave to teach them, and manna you did not restrain from their mouths, and water you gave them for their thirst.

Lamsa Bible
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and didst not withhold manna from their mouths, and gavest them water for their thirst.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou gavest also Thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not Thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them, and thou didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water in their thirst.
















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