Ezra, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word
of [1>]the LORD[<1] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
the LORD 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, 'The LORD, the
[2>]God[<2] of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; 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, may his God
be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and
build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel (he is God), which is
in Jerusalem. {1:4} Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let
the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and
with animals, besides the freewill offering for God's house which is
in Jerusalem.'"
{1:5} Then the heads of fathers' households of Judah and Benjamin,
and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had
stirred to go up rose up to build the house of the LORD 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
the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had
put in the house of his gods; {1:8} even those, Cyrus king of Persia
brought out 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.
Sheshbazzar brought all these up, when the captives 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, Yeshua, 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 Yeshua 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 Yeshua,
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 Yeshua 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 place among those who were registered 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' households, when they came to the house of the
LORD which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God's house 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 had come, and the children of Israel
were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man
to Jerusalem. {3:2} Then Yeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with 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 Torah of Moses the man of
God. {3:3} In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the
surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered
burnt offerings on it to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and
evening. {3:4} They 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; {3:5} and afterward the
continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the
set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone who
willingly offered a freewill offering to the LORD. {3:6} From the
first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to
the LORD; but the foundation of the LORD's temple was not yet laid.
{3:7} They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They
also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to
bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the
grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
{3:8} Now in the second year of their coming to God's house at
Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and
Yeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests
and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to
Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years
old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the LORD's house.
{3:9} Then Yeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and
his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the
workmen in God's house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their
brothers the Levites. {3:10} When the builders laid the foundation of
the LORD's temple, they set the priests in their clothing with
[3>]shofars[<3], with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to
praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
{3:11} They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the
LORD, "For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward
Israel." All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised
the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been
laid.
{3:12} But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers'
households, 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. Many also 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 far away.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
[2] {1:2} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
[3] {3:10} or, trumpets
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