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 | | The other passage of paramount importance is Neh 8:8 f, according to which Ezra is said to have "read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly." Not only did Ezra read the Law; he accompanied it with an interpretation. |
 | | This is practically all that the Old Testament says about itself, though other passages, such as Zec 7:12 and Dan 9:2 might be brought forward to show the deep regard which the later prophets had for the writings of their predecessors. |
 | | The next in order is the Samaritan Pentateuch, the history of which is as follows: About 432 BC, as we know from Neh 13:28 and Josephus (Ant., XI, vii, 2 through viii, 4), Nehemiah expelled from the Jewish colony in Jerusalem Manasseh, the polygamous grandson of Eliashib the high priest and son-in-law of Sanballat. |
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