Ezra
1:1Now in the first year of Koresh
king of Paras, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might
be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Koresh king of Paras,
so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put
it also in writing, saying, 1:2Thus says Koresh king of Paras,
All the kingdoms of the earth has the LORD, the G-d of heaven, given me;
and he has charged me to build him a house in Yerushalayim, which is in
Yehudah. 1:3Whoever there is among you of all
his people, his G-d be with him, and let him go up to Yerushalayim, which
is in Yehudah, and build the house of the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el (he is
God), which is in Yerushalayim. 1:4Whoever is left, in any place
where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with
gold, and with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill-offering for
the house of G-d which is in Yerushalayim. 1:5Then rose up
the heads of fathers' houses of Yehudah and Binyamin, and the kohanim, and the Levites, even all whose spirit G-d had
stirred to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Yerushalayim.
1:6All those who were round about
them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with
goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was
willingly offered. 1:7Also Koresh the king brought forth
the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nevukhadnetztzar had brought
forth out of Yerushalayim, and had put in the house of his gods; 1:8even those did Koresh king of
Paras bring forth by the hand of Mitredat the treasurer, and numbered them
to Sheshbatztzer, the prince of Yehudah. 1:9This is the
number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver,
twenty-nine knives, 1:10thirty bowls of gold, silver
bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one
thousand. 1:11All the vessels of gold and of
silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbatztzer
bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Bavel to
Yerushalayim.
2:1Now these are the children of the
province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried
away, whom Nevukhadnetztzar the king of Bavel had carried away to Bavel,
and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehudah, everyone to his city; 2:2who came with Zerubbavel, Yeshua,
Nechemyah, Serayah, Re`elayah, Mordekhai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rechum,
Ba`anah. The number of the men of the people of Yisra'el: 2:3The children of Par`osh, two
thousand one hundred seventy-two. 2:4The children
of Shefatyah, three hundred seventy-two. 2:5The children
of Arach, seven hundred seventy-five. 2:6The children
of Pachat-Mo'av, of the children of Yeshua and Yo'av, two thousand
eight hundred twelve. 2:7The children of `Elam, one
thousand two hundred fifty-four. 2:8The children
of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five. 2:9The children
of Zakkai, seven hundred sixty. 2:10The
children of Bani, six hundred forty-two. 2:11The
children of Bevai, six hundred twenty-three. 2:12The
children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two. 2:13The children of Adonikam, six
hundred sixty-six. 2:14The children of Bigvai, two
thousand fifty-six. 2:15The children of `Adin, four
hundred fifty-four. 2:16The children of Ater, of
Chizkiyahu, ninety-eight. 2:17The children of Betzai, three
hundred twenty-three. 2:18The children of Yorah, one
hundred twelve. 2:19The children of Chashum, two
hundred Twenty-three. 2:20The children of Gibbar,
ninety-five. 2:21The children of Beit-Lechem, one
hundred twenty-three. 2:22The men of Netofah, fifty-six. 2:23The men of `Anatot, one hundred
twenty-eight. 2:24The children of `Azmavet,
forty-two. 2:25The children of Kiryat-Arim,
Kefirah, and Be'erot, seven hundred forty-three. 2:26The
children of Ramah and Geva, six hundred twenty-one. 2:27The men of
Mikhmas, one hundred twenty-two. 2:28The men of
Beit-El and `Ai, two hundred twenty-three. 2:29The
children of Nevo, fifty-two. 2:30The children of Magbish, one
hundred fifty-six. 2:31The children of the other `Elam,
one thousand two hundred fifty-four. 2:32The
children of Charim, three hundred twenty. 2:33The
children of Lod, Chadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five. 2:34The children of Yericho, three
hundred forty-five. 2:35The children of Sena'ah, three
thousand six hundred thirty. 2:36The kohanim:
the children of Yedayah, of the house of Yeshua, nine hundred
seventy-three. 2:37The children of Immer, one
thousand fifty-two. 2:38The children of Pashchur, one
thousand two hundred forty-seven. 2:39The
children of Charim, one thousand seventeen. 2:40The
Levites: the children of Yeshua and Kadmi'el, of the children of Hodavyah,
seventy-four. 2:41The singers: the children of
Asaf, one hundred twenty-eight. 2:42The
children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater,
the children of Talmon, the children of `Akkuv, the children of Chatita,
the children of Shovai, in all one hundred thirty-nine. 2:43The temple servants: the children
of Tzicha, the children of Chasufa, the children of Tabba`ot, 2:44the children of Keros, the
children of Si`aha, the children of Padon, 2:45the
children of Levanah, the children of Chagava, the children of `Akkuv, 2:46the children of Chagav, the
children of Salmai, the children of Chanan, 2:47the
children of Giddel, the children of Gachar, the children of Re'ayah, 2:48the children of Retzin, the
children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam, 2:49the
children of Uzza, the children of Pase'ach, the children of Besai, 2:50the children of Asnah, the
children of Me`unim, the children of Nefusim, 2:51the
children of Bakbuk, the children of Chakufa, the children of Charchur, 2:52the children of Batzlut, the
children of Mechida, the children of Charsha, 2:53the
children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temach, 2:54the children of Netzi'ach, the
children of Chatifa. 2:55The children of Shlomo's
servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Soferet, the children of
Peruda, 2:56the children of Ya`alah, the
children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, 2:57the
children of Shefatyah, the children of Chattil, the children of
Pokheret-Hatzevayim, the children of Ami. 2:58All the
temple servants, and the children of Shlomo's servants, were three hundred
ninety-two. 2:59These were those who went up from
Tel-melah, Tel-Charsha, Keruv, Addan, and Immer; but they could not
show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Yisra'el:
2:60the children of Delayah, the
children of Toviyah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two. 2:61Of the children of the kohanim: the children of Chavayah, the children of Hakkotz,
the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai
the Gil`adite, and was called after their name. 2:62These
sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy,
but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from
the priesthood. 2:63The governor said to them, that
they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a kohen with Urim and with Tummim. 2:64The whole
assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty, 2:65besides their men-servants and
their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred
thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women. 2:66Their horses were seven hundred
thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five; 2:67their
camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven
hundred and twenty. 2:68Some of the heads of fathers'
houses, when they came to the house of the LORD which is in
Yerushalayim, offered willingly for the house of G-d to set it up in its
place: 2:69they gave after their ability
into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five
thousand minas of silver, and one hundred kohanim'
garments. 2:70So the kohanim,
and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters,
and the temple servants, lived in their cities, and all Yisra'el in their
cities.
3:1When the seventh month was come,
and the children of Yisra'el were in the cities, the people gathered
themselves together as one man to Yerushalayim. 3:2Then stood
up Yeshua the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers the kohanim, and Zerubbavel the son of She'alti'el, and his
brothers, and built the altar of the G-d of Yisra'el, to offer burnt
offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moshe the man of G-d. 3:3They set the altar on its base;
for fear was on them because of the peoples of the countries: and they
offered burnt offerings thereon to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning
and evening. 3:4They kept the feast of booths, as
it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number,
according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required; 3:5and afterward the continual
burnt-offering, and the offerings of the new moons, and of all the
set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone who
willingly offered a freewill-offering to the LORD. 3:6From the
first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to the
LORD: but the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid. 3:7They gave money also to the
masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of
Tzidon, and to them of Tzor, to bring cedar trees from Levanon to the sea,
to Yafo, according to the grant that they had of Koresh king of Paras. 3:8Now in the second year of their
coming to the house of G-d at Yerushalayim, in the second month, began
Zerubbavel the son of She'alti'el, and Yeshua the son of Yotzadak, and the
rest of their brothers the kohanim and the Levites, and
all those who were come out of the captivity to Yerushalayim, and
appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the
oversight of the work of the house of the LORD. 3:9Then stood
Yeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmi'el and his sons, the sons of
Yehudah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of
God: the sons of Chenadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
3:10When the builders laid the
foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the kohanim in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites
the sons of Asaf with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the order of
David king of Yisra'el. 3:11They sang one to another in
praising and giving thanks to the LORD, saying, For he is good, for
his loving kindness endures forever toward Yisra'el. All the people
shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the
foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 3:12But many of
the kohanim and Levites and heads of fathers'
houses, the old men who had seen the first house, when the
foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud
voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: 3:13so that the
people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of
the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and
the noise was heard afar off.
4:1Now when the adversaries of
Yehudah and Binyamin heard that the children of the captivity were
building a temple to the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el; 4:2then they
drew near to Zerubbavel, and to the heads of fathers' houses, and
said to them, Let us build with you; for we seek your G-d, as you do; and
we sacrifice to him since the days of Esar-Chaddon king of Ashshur, who
brought us up here. 4:3But Zerubbavel, and Yeshua, and
the rest of the heads of fathers' houses of Yisra'el, said to them,
You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our G-d; but we
ourselves together will build to the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, as king
Koresh the king of Paras has commanded us. 4:4Then the
people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Yehudah, and
troubled them in building, 4:5and hired counselors against them,
to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Koresh king of Paras, even
until the reign of Daryavesh king of Paras. 4:6In the reign
of Achashverosh, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation
against the inhabitants of Yehudah and Yerushalayim. 4:7In the days
of Artachshasta wrote Bishlam, Mitredat, Tav'el, and the rest of his
companions, to Artachshasta king of Paras; and the writing of the letter
was written in the Arammian character, and set forth in the
Arammian language. 4:8Rechum the chancellor and Shimshai
the scribe wrote a letter against Yerushalayim to Artachshasta the king in
this sort: 4:9then wrote Rechum the
chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the
Dinites, and the Afarsatkhi, the Tarpelites, the Afarsi, the Arkevi, the
Bavlites, the Shushankhites, the Dehites, the Elamites, 4:10and the rest of the nations whom
the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the city of Shomron,
and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth. 4:11This is the copy of the letter
that they sent to Artachshasta the king: Your servants the men beyond the
River, and so forth. 4:12Be it known to the king, that the
Yehudim who came up from you are come to us to Yerushalayim; they are
building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and
repaired the foundations. 4:13Be it known now to the king that
if this city is built, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute,
custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings. 4:14Now because we eat the salt of
the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king's dishonor,
therefore have we sent and informed the king; 4:15that search
may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: so shall you find
in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city,
and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition
within the same of old time; for which cause was this city laid waste. 4:16We inform the king that, if this
city be built, and the walls finished, by this means you shall have no
portion beyond the River. 4:17Then sent the king an
answer to Rechum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the
rest of their companions who dwell in Shomron, and in the rest of the
country beyond the River: Shalom, and so forth. 4:18The letter
which you sent to us has been plainly read before me. 4:19I decreed, and search has been
made, and it is found that this city of old time has made insurrection
against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. 4:20There have been mighty kings also
over Yerushalayim, who have ruled over all the country beyond the
River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them. 4:21Make you now a decree to cause
these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree shall
be made by me. 4:22Take heed that you not be slack
herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? 4:23Then when the copy of king
Artachshasta' letter was read before Rechum, and Shimshai the scribe, and
their companions, they went in haste to Yerushalayim to the Yehudim, and
made them to cease by force and power. 4:24Then ceased
the work of the house of G-d which is at Yerushalayim; and it ceased until
the second year of the reign of Daryavesh king of Paras.
5:1Now the prophets, Chaggai the
prophet, and Zekharyah the son of `Iddo, prophesied to the Yehudim who
were in Yehudah and Yerushalayim; in the name of the G-d of Yisra'el
prophesied they to them. 5:2Then rose up Zerubbavel the son of
She'alti'el, and Yeshua the son of Yotzadak, and began to build the house
of G-d which is at Yerushalayim; and with them were the prophets of G-d,
helping them. 5:3At the same time came to them
Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetar-Bozenai, and their
companions, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this
house, and to finish this wall? 5:4Then we told them after this
manner, what the names of the men were who were making this building. 5:5But the eye of their G-d was on
the elders of the Yehudim, and they did not make them cease, until the
matter should come to Daryavesh, and then answer should be returned by
letter concerning it. 5:6The copy of the letter that
Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetar-Bozenai, and his
companions the Afarsekhi, who were beyond the River, sent to Daryavesh the
king; 5:7they sent a letter to him, in
which was written thus: To Daryavesh the king, all shalom. 5:8Be it known to the king, that we
went into the province of Yehudah, to the house of the great G-d, which is
built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work
goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands. 5:9Then asked
we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build
this house, and to finish this wall? 5:10We asked
them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the
men who were at the head of them. 5:11Thus they
returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the G-d of heaven and
earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago,
which a great king of Yisra'el built and finished. 5:12But after
that our fathers had provoked the G-d of heaven to wrath, he gave them
into the hand of Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel, the Kasdai, who destroyed
this house, and carried the people away into Bavel. 5:13But in the
first year of Koresh king of Bavel, Koresh the king made a decree to build
this house of G-d. 5:14The gold and silver vessels also
of the house of G-d, which Nevukhadnetztzar took out of the temple that
was in Yerushalayim, and brought into the temple of Bavel, those did
Koresh the king take out of the temple of Bavel, and they were delivered
to one whose name was Sheshbatztzer, whom he had made governor; 5:15and he said to him, Take these
vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Yerushalayim, and let the
house of G-d be built in its place. 5:16Then came
the same Sheshbatztzer, and laid the foundations of the house of G-d which
is in Yerushalayim: and since that time even until now has it been in
building, and yet it is not completed. 5:17Now
therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the
king's treasure-house, which is there at Bavel, whether it be so, that a
decree was made of Koresh the king to build this house of G-d at
Yerushalayim; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this
matter.
6:1Then Daryavesh the king made a
decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the
treasures were laid up in Bavel. 6:2There was
found at Achmeta, in the palace that is in the province of Madai, a
scroll, and therein was thus written for a record: 6:3In the first
year of Koresh the king, Koresh the king made a decree: Concerning the
house of G-d at Yerushalayim, let the house be built, the place where they
offer sacrifices, and let the foundations of it be strongly laid; the
height of it sixty cubits, and the breadth of it sixty cubits; 6:4with three courses of great
stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of
the king's house. 6:5Also let the gold and silver
vessels of the house of G-d, which Nevukhadnetztzar took forth out of the
temple which is at Yerushalayim, and brought to Bavel, be restored, and
brought again to the temple which is at Yerushalayim, everyone to its
place; and you shall put them in the house of G-d. 6:6Now
therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetar-Bozenai, and your
companions the Afarsekhi, who are beyond the River, be you far from there:
6:7let the work of this house of G-d
alone; let the governor of the Yehudim and the elders of the Yehudim build
this house of G-d in its place. 6:8Moreover I make a decree what you
shall do to these elders of the Yehudim for the building of this house of
God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River,
expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they be not
hindered. 6:9That which they have need of, both
young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the G-d of
heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of
the kohanim who are at Yerushalayim, let it be given
them day by day without fail; 6:10that they may offer sacrifices of
sweet savor to the G-d of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and
of his sons. 6:11Also I have made a decree, that
whoever shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled out from his house,
and let him be lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made a
dunghill for this: 6:12and the G-d who has caused his
name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put forth
their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of G-d which is
at Yerushalayim. I Daryavesh have made a decree; let it be done with all
diligence. 6:13Then Tattenai, the governor
beyond the River, Shetar-Bozenai, and their companions, because that
Daryavesh the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence. 6:14The elders of the Yehudim built
and prospered, through the prophesying of Chaggai the prophet and
Zekharyah the son of `Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the
mitzvah of the G-d of Yisra'el, and according to the
decree of Koresh, and Daryavesh, and Artachshasta king of Paras. 6:15This house was finished on the
third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of
Daryavesh the king. 6:16The children of Yisra'el, the kohanim, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of
the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of G-d with joy. 6:17They offered at the dedication of
this house of G-d one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
and for a sin-offering for all Yisra'el, twelve male goats, according to
the number of the tribes of Yisra'el. 6:18They set
the kohanim in their divisions, and the Levites in
their courses, for the service of G-d, which is at Yerushalayim; as it is
written in the book of Moshe. 6:19The children of the captivity
kept the Pesach on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6:20For the kohanim and the Levites had purified themselves together;
all of them were pure: and they killed the Pesach for all the children of
the captivity, and for their brothers the kohanim, and
for themselves. 6:21The children of Yisra'el who had
come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves
to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek the LORD,
the G-d of Yisra'el, ate, 6:22and kept the feast of matzah seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them
joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Ashshur to them, to
strengthen their hands in the work of the house of G-d, the G-d of
Yisra'el.
7:1Now after these things, in the
reign of Artachshasta king of Paras, Ezra the son of Serayah, the son of
`Azaryah, the son of Chilkiyah, 7:2the son of Shallum, the son of
Tzadok, the son of Achituv, 7:3the son of Amaryah, the son of
`Azaryah, the son of Merayot, 7:4the son of Zerachyah, the son of
`Uzzi, the son of Bukki, 7:5the son of Avishua, the son of
Pinechas, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the chief kohen; 7:6this Ezra went up from Bavel: and
he was a ready scribe in the law of Moshe, which the LORD, the G-d of
Yisra'el, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according
to the hand of the LORD his G-d on him. 7:7There went
up some of the children of Yisra'el, and of the kohanim, and the Levites, and the singers, and the
porters, and the temple servants, to Yerushalayim, in the seventh year of
Artachshasta the king. 7:8He came to Yerushalayim in the
fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. 7:9For on the first day of the
first month began he to go up from Bavel; and on the first day of
the fifth month came he to Yerushalayim, according to the good hand of his
God on him. 7:10For Ezra had set his heart to
seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Yisra'el statutes
and ordinances. 7:11Now this is the copy of the
letter that the king Artachshasta gave to Ezra the kohen, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the mitzvot of the LORD, and of his statutes to Yisra'el: 7:12Artachshasta, king of kings, to
Ezra the kohen, the scribe of the law of the G-d of
heaven, perfect and so forth. 7:13I make a decree, that all those
of the people of Yisra'el, and their kohanim and the
Levites, in my realm, who are minded of their own free will to go to
Yerushalayim, go with you. 7:14Because you are sent of the king
and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Yehudah and Yerushalayim,
according to the law of your G-d which is in your hand, 7:15and to carry the silver and gold,
which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the G-d of
Yisra'el, whose habitation is in Yerushalayim, 7:16and all the
silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Bavel, with the
freewill-offering of the people, and of the kohanim,
offering willingly for the house of their G-d which is in Yerushalayim; 7:17therefore you shall with all
diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their
meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shall offer them on the
altar of the house of your G-d which is in Yerushalayim. 7:18Whatever shall seem good to you
and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that
do you after the will of your G-d. 7:19The vessels
that are given you for the service of the house of your G-d, deliver you
before the G-d of Yerushalayim. 7:20Whatever
more shall be needful for the house of your G-d, which you shall have
occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure-house. 7:21I, even I Artachshasta the king,
do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that
whatever Ezra the kohen, the scribe of the law of the
God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence, 7:22to one hundred talents of silver,
and to one hundred measures of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine,
and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. 7:23Whatever is commanded by the G-d
of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the G-d of heaven; for
why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? 7:24Also we inform you, that touching
any of the kohanim and Levites, the singers, porters,
temple servants, or servants of this house of G-d, it shall not be lawful
to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them. 7:25You, Ezra,
after the wisdom of your G-d who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and
judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as
know the laws of your G-d; and teach you him who doesn't know them. 7:26Whoever will not do the law of
your G-d, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with
all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to
confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. 7:27Blessed be
the LORD, the G-d of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the
king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Yerushalayim;
7:28and has extended loving kindness
to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's
mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the hand of the LORD my
God on me, and I gathered together out of Yisra'el chief men to go up with
me.
8:1Now these are the heads of their
fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up
with me from Bavel, in the reign of Artachshasta the king: 8:2Of the sons of Pinechas, Gershom.
Of the sons of Itamar, Daniyel. Of the sons of David, Chattush. 8:3Of the sons of Shekhanyahu, of the
sons of Par`osh, Zekharyah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the
males one hundred fifty. 8:4Of the sons of Pachat-Mo'av,
Elyeho`enai the son of Zerachyah; and with him two hundred males. 8:5Of the sons of Shekhanyahu, the
son of Yachazi'el; and with him three hundred males. 8:6Of the sons
of `Adin, `Eved the son of Yonatan; and with him fifty males. 8:7Of the sons of `Elam, Yesha`yah
the son of `Atalyah; and with him seventy males. 8:8Of the sons
of Shefatyah, Zevadyah the son of Mikha'el; and with him eighty males. 8:9Of the sons of Yo'av, `Ovadyah the
son of Yechi'el; and with him two hundred and eighteen males. 8:10Of the sons of Shelomit, the son
of Yosifyah; and with him one hundred sixty males. 8:11Of the sons
of Bevai, Zekharyah the son of Bevai; and with him twenty-eight males. 8:12Of the sons of Azgad, Yochanan
the son of Katan; and with him one hundred ten males. 8:13Of the sons of Adonikam, who
were the last; and these are their names: Elifelet, Ye`u'el, and
Shemayah; and with them sixty males. 8:14Of the sons
of Bigvai, `Utai and Zakkur; and with them seventy males. 8:15I gathered them together to the
river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed
the people, and the kohanim, and found there none of
the sons of Levi. 8:16Then sent I for Eli`ezer, for
Ari'el, for Shemayah, and for Elnatan, and for Yariv, and for Elnatan, and
for Natan, and for Zekharyah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for
Yoiariv, and for Elnatan, who were teachers. 8:17I sent them
forth to `Iddo the chief at the place Kasifyah; and I told them what they
should tell `Iddo, and his brothers the temple servants, at the
place Kasifyah, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of
our G-d. 8:18According to the good hand of our
God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Machli, the
son of Levi, the son of Yisra'el; and Sherevyah, with his sons and his
brothers, eighteen; 8:19and Chashavyah, and with him
Yesha`yah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty; 8:20and of the temple servants, whom
David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two
hundred and twenty temple servants: all of them were mentioned by name. 8:21Then I proclaimed a fast there,
at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our G-d, to seek
of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our
substance. 8:22For I was ashamed to ask of the
king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the
way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our G-d is on
all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against
all those who forsake him. 8:23So we fasted and begged our G-d
for this: and he was entreated of us. 8:24Then I set
apart twelve of the chiefs of the kohanim, even
Sherevyah, Chashavyah, and ten of their brothers with them, 8:25and weighed to them the silver,
and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our G-d,
which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Yisra'el
there present, had offered: 8:26I weighed into their hand six
hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents;
of gold one hundred talents; 8:27and twenty bowls of gold, of one
thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
8:28I said to them, You are holy to
the LORD, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a
freewill-offering to the LORD, the G-d of your fathers. 8:29Watch you, and keep them, until
you weigh them before the chiefs of the kohanim and the
Levites, and the princes of the fathers' houses of Yisra'el, at
Yerushalayim, in the chambers of the house of the LORD. 8:30So the kohanim
and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the
vessels, to bring them to Yerushalayim to the house of our G-d. 8:31Then we departed from the river
Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Yerushalayim:
and the hand of our G-d was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of
the enemy and the bandit by the way. 8:32We came to
Yerushalayim, and abode there three days. 8:33On the
fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the
house of our G-d into the hand of Meremot the son of Uriyah the kohen; and with him was El`azar the son of Pinechas; and
with them was Yozavad the son of Yeshua, and No`adyah the son of Binnui,
the Levite; 8:34the whole by number and by
weight: and all the weight was written at that time. 8:35The
children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt
offerings to the G-d of Yisra'el, twelve bulls for all Yisra'el,
ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a
sin-offering: all this was a burnt offering to the LORD. 8:36They delivered the king's
commissions to the king's satraps, and to the governors beyond the River:
and they furthered the people and the house of G-d.
9:1Now when these things were done,
the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Yisra'el, and the kohanim and the Levites, have not separated themselves
from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their
abominations, even of the Kana`anim, the Chitti, the Perizzi, the Yevusi,
the `Ammonim, the Mo`avim, the Egyptians, and the Amori. 9:2For they have taken of their
daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have
mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the
princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass. 9:3When I heard
this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my
head and of my beard, and sat down confounded. 9:4Then were
assembled to me everyone who trembled at the words of the G-d of Yisra'el,
because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded
until the evening offering. 9:5At the evening offering I arose up
from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on
my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my G-d; 9:6and I said,
my G-d, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my G-d; for our
iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to
the heavens. 9:7Since the days of our fathers we
have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we,
our kings, and our kohanim, been delivered into the
hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to
plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. 9:8Now for a
little moment grace has been shown from the LORD our G-d, to leave us a
remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our G-d
may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. 9:9For we are bondservants; yet our
God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness
to us in the sight of the kings of Paras, to give us a reviving, to set up
the house of our G-d, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall
in Yehudah and in Yerushalayim. 9:10Now, our
God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your mitzvot, 9:11which you have commanded by your
servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which you go to possess it, is
an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands,
through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another
with their filthiness: 9:12now therefore don't give your
daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor
seek their shalom or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and
eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children
forever. 9:13After all that is come on us for
our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that you our G-d have
punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a
remnant, 9:14shall we again break your mitzvot, and join in affinity with the peoples that do
these abominations? would not you be angry with us until you had consumed
us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? 9:15LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, you
are righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this
day: behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand
before you because of this.
10:1Now while Ezra prayed and made
confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of G-d,
there was gathered together to him out of Yisra'el a very great assembly
of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore. 10:2Shekhanyahu the son of Yechi'el,
one of the sons of `Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our
God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now
there is hope for Yisra'el concerning this thing. 10:3Now
therefore let us make a covenant with our G-d to put away all the wives,
and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of
those who tremble at the mitzvah of our G-d; and let it
be done according to the law. 10:4Arise; for the matter belongs to
you, and we are with you: be of good courage, and do it. 10:5Then arose Ezra, and made the
chiefs of the kohanim, the Levites, and all Yisra'el,
to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore. 10:6Then Ezra rose up from before the
house of G-d, and went into the chamber of Yehochanan the son of Elyashiv:
and when he came there, he ate no bread, nor drink water; for he
mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity. 10:7They made proclamation throughout
Yehudah and Yerushalayim to all the children of the captivity, that they
should gather themselves together to Yerushalayim; 10:8and that
whoever didn't come within three days, according to the counsel of the
princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself
separated from the assembly of the captivity. 10:9Then all
the men of Yehudah and Binyamin gathered themselves together to
Yerushalayim within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the
twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the broad
place before the house of G-d, trembling because of this matter, and for
the great rain. 10:10Ezra the kohen stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and
have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Yisra'el. 10:11Now therefore make confession to
the LORD, the G-d of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate
yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women. 10:12Then all the assembly answered
with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, so must we do. 10:13But the people are many, and it
is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside: neither is
this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this
matter. 10:14Let now our princes be appointed
for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have
married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of
every city, and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our G-d be
turned from us, until this matter be dispatched. 10:15Only
Yonatan the son of `Asa'el and Yachzeyah the son of Tikvah stood up
against this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbetai the Levite helped
them. 10:16The children of the captivity
did so. Ezra the kohen, with certain heads of
fathers' houses, after their fathers' houses, and all of them by
their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the
tenth month to examine the matter. 10:17They made
an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of
the first month. 10:18Among the sons of the kohanim there were found who had married foreign women:
namely, of the sons of Yeshua, the son of Yotzadak, and his
brothers, Ma`aseyah, and Eli`ezer, and Yariv, and Gedalyahu. 10:19They gave their hand that they
would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of
the flock for their guilt. 10:20Of the sons of Immer: Chanani
and Zevadyah. 10:21Of the sons of Charim:
Ma`aseyah, and Eliyah, and Shemayah, and Yechi'el, and `Uzziyah. 10:22Of the sons of Pashchur:
Elyo`enai, Ma`aseyah, Yishma'el, Netan'el, Yozavad, and El`asah. 10:23Of the Levites: Yozavad, and
Shim`i, and Kelayah (the same is Kelita), Petachyah, Yehudah, and
Eli`ezer. 10:24Of the singers: Elyashiv. Of the
porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri. 10:25Of
Yisra'el: Of the sons of Par`osh: Ramyah, and Yizziyah, and Malkiyah, and
Miyamin, and El`azar, and Malkiyah, and Benayah. 10:26Of the
sons of `Elam: Mattanyah, Zekharyah, and Yechi'el, and `Avdi, and Yeremot,
and Eliyah. 10:27Of the sons of Zattu: Elyo`enai,
Elyashiv, Mattanyah, and Yeremot, and Zavad, and Aziza. 10:28Of the sons of Bevai:
Yehochanan, Chananyah, Zakkai, `Atlai. 10:29Of the
sons of Bani: Meshullam, Mallukh, and `Adayah, Yashuv, and She'al, Ramot.
10:30Of the sons of Pachat-Mo'av:
`Adna, and Kelal, Benayah, Ma`aseyah, Mattanyah, Betzal'el, and Binnui,
and Menashsheh. 10:31of the sons of Charim:
Eli`ezer, Yishshiyah, Malkiyah, Shemayah, Shim`on, 10:32Binyamin,
Mallukh, Shemaryahu. 10:33Of the sons of Chashum:
Mattenai, Mattattah, Zavad, Elifelet, Yeremai, Menashsheh, Shim`i. 10:34Of the sons of Bani: Ma`adai,
`Amram, and U'el, 10:35Benayah, Bedeyah, Keluhu, 10:36Vanyah, Meremot, Elyashiv, 10:37Mattanyah, Mattenai, and
Ya`asai, 10:38and Bani, and Binnui, Shim`i, 10:39and Shelemyahu, and Natan, and
`Adayah, 10:40Makhnadvai, Shashai, Sharai, 10:41`Azar'el, and Shelemyahu,
Shemaryahu, 10:42Shallum, Amaryah, Yosef. 10:43Of the sons of Nevo: Ye`i'el,
Mattityah, Zavad, Zevina, Yaddai, and Yo'el, Benayah. 10:44All these had taken foreign
wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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