Ezra, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word
of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh
stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing,
saying, {1:2} Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the
earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has commanded me
to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. {1:3} Whoever
there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him
go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh,
the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem. {1:4} Whoever 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 God which is in
Jerusalem. {1:5} Then rose up the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah
and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit
God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which is in
Jerusalem. {1:6} All those who were around 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.
{1:7} Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of
Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and
had put in the house of his gods; {1:8} even those did Cyrus king of
Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and
numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. {1:9} This is the
number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of
silver, twenty-nine knives, {1:10} thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls
of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.
{1:11} All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and
four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the
captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
{2:1} Now 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 to Babylon, and
who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city; {2:2} who
came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai,
Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the
people of Israel: {2:3} The children of Parosh, two thousand one
hundred seventy-two. {2:4} The children of Shephatiah, three hundred
seventy-two. {2:5} The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
{2:6} The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua [and]
Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve. {2:7} The children of Elam,
one thousand two hundred fifty-four. {2:8} The children of Zattu, nine
hundred forty-five. {2:9} The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
{2:10} The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two. {2:11} The
children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three. {2:12} The children of
Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two. {2:13} The children of
Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six. {2:14} The children of Bigvai, two
thousand fifty-six. {2:15} The children of Adin, four hundred
fifty-four. {2:16} The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
{2:17} The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three. {2:18} The
children of Jorah, one hundred twelve. {2:19} The children of Hashum,
two hundred Twenty-three. {2:20} The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
{2:21} The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three. {2:22} The
men of Netophah, fifty-six. {2:23} The men of Anathoth, one hundred
twenty-eight. {2:24} The children of Azmaveth, forty-two. {2:25} The
children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred
forty-three. {2:26} The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred
twenty-one. {2:27} The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two. {2:28}
The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three. {2:29} The
children of Nebo, fifty-two. {2:30} The children of Magbish, one
hundred fifty-six. {2:31} The children of the other Elam, one thousand
two hundred fifty-four. {2:32} The children of Harim, three hundred
twenty. {2:33} The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred
twenty-five. {2:34} The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
{2:35} The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.
{2:36} The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
nine hundred seventy-three. {2:37} The children of Immer, one thousand
fifty-two. {2:38} The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred
forty-seven. {2:39} The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.
{2:40} The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the
children of Hodaviah, seventy-four. {2:41} The singers: the children
of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight. {2:42} The children of 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, in all one hundred thirty-nine. {2:43} The Nethinim: the
children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
{2:44} the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of
Padon, {2:45} the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the
children of Akkub, {2:46} the children of Hagab, the children of
Shamlai, the children of Hanan, {2:47} the children of Giddel, the
children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, {2:48} the children of
Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam, {2:49} the
children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
{2:50} the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of
Nephisim, {2:51} the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the
children of Harhur, {2:52} the children of Bazluth, the children of
Mehida, the children of Harsha, {2:53} the children of Barkos, the
children of Sisera, the children of Temah, {2:54} the children of
Neziah, the children of Hatipha. {2:55} The children of Solomon's
servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the
children of Peruda, {2:56} the children of Jaalah, the children of
Darkon, the children of Giddel, {2:57} the children of Shephatiah, the
children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children
of Ami. {2:58} All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's
servants, were three hundred ninety-two. {2:59} These were those who
went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer; but
they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether
they were of Israel: {2:60} the children of Delaiah, the children of
Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two. {2:61} Of the
children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, 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. {2:62} These
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. {2:63} The governor said to them, that they
should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest
with Urim and with Thummim. {2:64} The whole assembly together was
forty-two thousand three hundred sixty, {2:65} besides their male
servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand
three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and
singing women. {2:66} Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six;
their mules, two hundred forty-five; {2:67} their camels, four hundred
thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
{2:68} Some of the heads of fathers' [houses], when they came to the
house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house
of God to set it up in its place: {2:69} they 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 priests' garments.
{2:70} So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and
the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities,
and all Israel in their cities.
{3:1} When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel
were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man
to Jerusalem. {3:2} Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his
brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his
brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt
offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of
God. {3:3} They 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 Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
{3:4} They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and [offered]
the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as
the duty of every day required; {3:5} and afterward the continual
burnt offering, and [the offerings] of the new moons, and of all the
set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who
willingly offered a freewill offering to Yahweh. {3:6} From the first
day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to
Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.
{3:7} They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and
food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to
bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the
grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. {3:8} Now in the second
year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second
month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of
Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites,
and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and
appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the
oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh. {3:9} Then stood Jeshua
with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of
Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of
God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the
Levites. {3:10} When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of
Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the
Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the
order of David king of Israel. {3:11} They sang one to another in
praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, [saying], For he is good, for
his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel. All the people
shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the
foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid. {3:12} But many of the
priests 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: {3:13} so 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.
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