Nehemiah, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up
the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were
appointed, {7:2} that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the
governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful
man, and feared God above many. {7:3} I said to them, Don't let the
gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they
stand [on guard], let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and
appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his
watch, and everyone [to be] over against his house. {7:4} Now the city
was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses
were not built. {7:5} My God put into my heart to gather together the
nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by
genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at
the first, and I found written therein: {7:6} These are the children
of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had
been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried
away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his
city; {7:7} who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah,
Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum,
Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: {7:8} The
children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. {7:9} The
children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. {7:10} The children
of Arah, six hundred fifty-two. {7:11} The children of Pahathmoab, of
the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and]
eighteen. {7:12} The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred
fifty-four. {7:13} The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.
{7:14} The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. {7:15} The
children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight. {7:16} The children of
Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight. {7:17} The children of Azgad, two
thousand three hundred twenty-two. {7:18} The children of Adonikam,
six hundred sixty-seven. {7:19} The children of Bigvai, two thousand
sixty-seven. {7:20} The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
{7:21} The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. {7:22} The
children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight. {7:23} The children of
Bezai, three hundred twenty-four. {7:24} The children of Hariph, one
hundred twelve. {7:25} The children of Gibeon, ninety-five. {7:26} The
men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight. {7:27} The
men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. {7:28} The men of Beth
Azmaveth, forty-two. {7:29} The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and
Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three. {7:30} The men of Ramah and Geba,
six hundred twenty-one. {7:31} The men of Michmas, one hundred and
twenty-two. {7:32} The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.
{7:33} The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two. {7:34} The children of
the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. {7:35} The
children of Harim, three hundred twenty. {7:36} The children of
Jericho, three hundred forty-five. {7:37} The children of Lod, Hadid,
and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one. {7:38} The children of Senaah,
three thousand nine hundred thirty. {7:39} The priests: The children
of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. {7:40}
The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. {7:41} The children of
Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. {7:42} The children of
Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen. {7:43} The Levites: the children
of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
{7:44} The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
{7:45} The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the
children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the
children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight. {7:46} The Nethinim: the
children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
{7:47} the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of
Padon, {7:48} the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the
children of Salmai, {7:49} the children of Hanan, the children of
Giddel, the children of Gahar, {7:50} the children of Reaiah, the
children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, {7:51} the children of
Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah. {7:52} The
children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of
Nephushesim, {7:53} the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha,
the children of Harhur, {7:54} the children of Bazlith, the children
of Mehida, the children of Harsha, {7:55} the children of Barkos, the
children of Sisera, the children of Temah, {7:56} the children of
Neziah, the children of Hatipha. {7:57} The children of Solomon's
servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the
children of Perida, {7:58} the children of Jaala, the children of
Darkon, the children of Giddel, {7:59} the children of Shephatiah, the
children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children
of Amon. {7:60} All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's
servants, were three hundred ninety-two. {7:61} These were those who
went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they
could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they
were of Israel: {7:62} The children of Delaiah, the children of
Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two. {7:63} Of the
priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children
of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the
Gileadite, and was called after their name. {7:64} These sought their
register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not
found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the
priesthood. {7:65} The governor said to them, that they should not eat
of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and
Thummim. {7:66} The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand
three hundred sixty, {7:67} besides their male servants and their
female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred
thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and
singing women. {7:68} Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six;
their mules, two hundred forty-five; {7:69} [their] camels, four
hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred
twenty. {7:70} Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to
the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of
gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments. {7:71}
Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the
work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred
minas of silver. {7:72} That which the rest of the people gave was
twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and
sixty-seven priests' garments. {7:73} So the priests, and the Levites,
and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the
Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh
month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
{8:1} All the people gathered themselves together as one man into
the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra
the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had
commanded to Israel. {8:2} Ezra the priest brought the law before the
assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with
understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. {8:3} He read
therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from
early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women,
and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were
[attentive] to the book of the law. {8:4} Ezra the scribe stood on a
pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him
stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and
Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and
Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and]
Meshullam. {8:5} Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people;
(for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the
people stood up: {8:6} and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the
people answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands: and
they bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the
ground. {8:7} Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub,
Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan,
Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and
the people [stood] in their place. {8:8} They read in the book, in the
law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they
understood the reading. {8:9} Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra
the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to
all the people, This day is holy to Yahweh your God; don't mourn, nor
weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
{8:10} Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the
sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this
day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is
your strength. {8:11} So the Levites stilled all the people, saying,
Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be you grieved. {8:12}
All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send
portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the
words that were declared to them. {8:13} On the second day were
gathered together the heads of fathers' [houses] of all the people,
the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to give
attention to the words of the law. {8:14} They found written in the
law, how that Yahweh had commanded by Moses, that the children of
Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
{8:15} and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities,
and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mountain, and get olive
branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm
branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is
written. {8:16} So the people went forth, and brought them, and made
themselves booths, everyone on the roof of his house, and in their
courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place
of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.
{8:17} All the assembly of those who were come again out of the
captivity made booths, and lived in the booths; for since the days of
Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done
so. There was very great gladness. {8:18} Also day by day, from the
first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They
kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn
assembly, according to the ordinance.
{9:1} Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of
Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on
them. {9:2} The seed of Israel separated themselves from all
foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of
their fathers. {9:3} They stood up in their place, and read in the
book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and
[another] fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
{9:4} Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani,
Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried
with a loud voice to Yahweh their God. {9:5} Then the Levites, Jeshua,
and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and]
Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting
to everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted
above all blessing and praise. {9:6} You are Yahweh, even you alone;
you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the
earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in
them, and you preserve them all; and the army of heaven worships you.
{9:7} You are Yahweh the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him
forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,
{9:8} and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant
with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite,
and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to
his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous. {9:9}
You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by
the [1>]Red Sea[<1], {9:10} and showed signs and wonders on Pharaoh,
and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land; for you
knew that they dealt proudly against them, and did get you a name, as
it is this day. {9:11} You divided the sea before them, so that they
went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers
you did cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
{9:12} Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a
pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they
should go. {9:13} You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with
them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good
statutes and commandments, {9:14} and made known to them your holy
Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by
Moses your servant, {9:15} and gave them bread from the sky for their
hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their
thirst, and commanded those who they should go in to possess the land
which you had sworn to give them. {9:16} But they and our fathers
dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and didn't listen to your
commandments, {9:17} and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your
wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their
rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are
a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and
abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them. {9:18} Yes, when
they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God who
brought you up out of Egypt, and had committed awful blasphemies;
{9:19} yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the
wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day,
to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show
them light, and the way in which they should go. {9:20} You gave also
your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't withhold your manna from
their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. {9:21} Yes, forty
years did you sustain them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked
nothing; their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell.
{9:22} Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you did
allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even
the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
{9:23} Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and
brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their
fathers, that they should go in to possess it. {9:24} So the children
went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the
inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their
hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might
do with them as they would. {9:25} They took fortified cities, and a
fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn
out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: so
they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in
your great goodness. {9:26} Nevertheless they were disobedient, and
rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed
your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you,
and they committed awful blasphemies. {9:27} Therefore you delivered
them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in
the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from
heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors
who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries. {9:28} But after
they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them
in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them:
yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and
many times did you deliver them according to your mercies, {9:29} and
testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law.
Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but
sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in
them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would
not hear. {9:30} Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified
against them by your Spirit through your prophets: yet would they not
give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the peoples of the
lands. {9:31} Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a
full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and
merciful God. {9:32} Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty,
and the awesome God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let
all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our
kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on
our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of
Assyria to this day. {9:33} However you are just in all that is come
on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; {9:34}
neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers,
kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies
with which you did testify against them. {9:35} For they have not
served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave
them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them,
neither turned they from their wicked works. {9:36} Behold, we are
servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to
eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it.
{9:37} It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us
because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over
our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. {9:38}
Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our
princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:9} or, Sea of Reeds
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