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• Nehemiah laments that the Jews could no longer speak Hebrew, the Jews’ language. Aramaic had become the language they now spoke.
• Ezra, too, has to make special provision for the people, now that Aramaic (rather than Hebrew) is so commonly spoken. Ezra has to translate the Law from Hebrew to Aramaic for them, to make sure they understand it. In Nehemiah 8, we read the following: