unfoldingWord_en_tn/neh/09/16.md

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Connecting Statement:

In these verses, the Levites continue to praise Yahweh in the presence of the people of Israel.

they and our ancestors

the Israelites at the time of Moses and the people of Israel after the time of Moses

they were stiff-necked

This is an idiom that means that they were stubborn. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)