• Nehemiah 9:29
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 29 Although you would warn them so as to bring them back to your Law, they behaved presumptuously and refused to listen to your commandments;+ and they sinned against your regulations, by which a man will live if he observes them.+ But they stubbornly turned their back and stiffened their neck, and they refused to listen.

  • Nehemiah 9:29
    The Bible in Living English

    • 29 And you testified to them to bring them back to your code; but they were headstrong and did not listen to your commands and sinned against your laws, which men should conform to and have life by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened up their necks and did not listen.

  • Nehemiah 9:29
    American Standard Version

    • 29 and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • Nehemiah 9:29
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 29 and didst testify against them to bring them back unto thy law yet they dealt proudly and hearkened not unto thy commandments and against thy regulations they sinned, the which—if any son of earth shall do—then shall he live by them,—and yielded a rebellious shoulder, and their neck they stiffened and hearkened not.

  • Nehemiah 9:29
    King James Version

    • 29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.