Nechemyah, 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 Hananyah the
governor of the castle, charge over Yerushalayim; for he was a
faithful man, and feared God above many. {7:3} I said to them, Don't
let the gates of Yerushalayim 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 Yerushalayim, 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 Nevukhadnetztzar the king of
Bavel had carried away, and who returned to Yerushalayim and to
Yehudah, everyone to his city; {7:7} who came with Zerubbavel, Yeshua,
Nechemyah, `Azaryah, Ra`amyah, Nachamani, Mordekhai, Bilshan,
Misperet, Bigvai, Nechum, Ba`anah. The number of the men of the people
of Yisra'el: {7:8} The children of Par`osh, two thousand one hundred
seventy-two. {7:9} The children of Shefatyah, three hundred
seventy-two. {7:10} The children of Arach, six hundred fifty-two.
{7:11} The children of Pachat-Mo'av, of the children of Yeshua and
Yo'av, 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 Zakkai, seven
hundred sixty. {7:15} The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
{7:16} The children of Bevai, 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 Hizkiyahu,
ninety-eight. {7:22} The children of Hashum, three hundred
Twenty-eight. {7:23} The children of Betzai, three hundred
twenty-four. {7:24} The children of Harif, one hundred twelve. {7:25}
The children of Giv`on, ninety-five. {7:26} The men of Beit-Lechem and
Netofah, one hundred eighty-eight. {7:27} The men of `Anatot, one
hundred twenty-eight. {7:28} The men of Beit-`Azmavet, forty-two.
{7:29} The men of Kiryat-Ye`arim, Kefirah, and Be'erot, seven hundred
forty-three. {7:30} The men of Ramah and Geva, six hundred twenty-one.
{7:31} The men of Mikhmas, one hundred and twenty-two. {7:32} The men
of Beit-El and `Ai, a hundred twenty-three. {7:33} The men of the
other Nevo, 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 Yericho, three hundred
forty-five. {7:37} The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred
twenty-one. {7:38} The children of Sena'ah, three thousand nine
hundred thirty. {7:39} The [1>]Kohanim[<1]: The children of Yedayah,
of the house of Yeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. {7:40} The
children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. {7:41} The children of
Pashchur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. {7:42} The children of
Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen. {7:43} The Levites: the children
of Yeshua, of Kadmi'el, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
{7:44} The singers: the children of Asaf, one hundred forty-eight.
{7:45} The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the
children of Talmon, the children of `Akkuv, the children of Hatita,
the children of Shovai, one hundred thirty-eight. {7:46} The temple
servants: the children of Tzicha, the children of Hasufa, the children
of Tabba`ot, {7:47} the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the
children of Padon, {7:48} the children of Levanah, the children of
Hagava, the children of Salmai, {7:49} the children of Hanan, the
children of Giddel, the children of Gachar, {7:50} the children of
Re'ayah, the children of Retzin, the children of Nekoda, {7:51} the
children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Pase'ach.
{7:52} The children of Besai, the children of Me`unim, the children of
Nefishesim, {7:53} the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakufa, the
children of Harchur, {7:54} the children of Batzlit, the children of
Mechida, the children of Harsha, {7:55} the children of Barkos, the
children of Sisera, the children of Temach, {7:56} the children of
Netzi'ach, the children of Hatifa. {7:57} The children of Shlomo's
servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Soferet, the children
of Perida, {7:58} the children of Ya`alah, the children of Darkon, the
children of Giddel, {7:59} the children of Shefatyah, the children of
Hattil, the children of Pokheret-Hatzevayim, the children of Amon.
{7:60} All the temple servants, and the children of Shlomo's servants,
were three hundred ninety-two. {7:61} These were those who went up
from Tel-melah, Tel-Harsha, Keruv, Addon, and Immer; but they could
not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of
Yisra'el: {7:62} The children of Delayah, the children of Toviyah, the
children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two. {7:63} Of the
[2>]Kohanim[<2]: the children of Havayah, 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. {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 [3>]Kohen[<3] with
Urim and Tummim. {7:66} The whole assembly together was forty-two
thousand three hundred sixty, {7:67} besides their men-servants and
their maid-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 [4>]Kohanim[<4]' 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 [5>]Kohanim[<5]' garments. {7:73} So the
[6>]Kohanim[<6], and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers,
and some of the people, and the temple servants, and all Yisra'el,
lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children
of Yisra'el 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 [1>]Sofer[<1] to bring the book of the law of Moshe, which the
LORD had commanded to Yisra'el. {8:2} Ezra the [2>]Kohen[<2] 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
[3>]Sofer[<3] stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the
purpose; and beside him stood Mattityah, and Shema, and `Anayah, and
Uriyah, and Hilkiyah, and Ma`aseyah, on his right hand; and on his
left hand, Pedayahu, and Misha'el, and Malkiyah, and Hashum, and
Hashbaddanah, Zekharyah, [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 the
LORD, the great God. All the people answered, Amein, Amein, with the
lifting up of their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshiped
the LORD with their faces to the ground. {8:7} Also Yeshua, and Bani,
and Sherevyah, Yamin, `Akkuv, Shabbetai, Hodiyah, Ma`aseyah, Kelita,
`Azaryah, Yozavad, Hanan, Pelayah, 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} Nechemyah, who
was the governor, and Ezra the [4>]Kohen[<4] the [5>]Sofer[<5], and
the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is
holy to the LORD 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:
neither be you grieved; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
{8:11} So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your
shalom, 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 [6>]Kohanim[<6], and
the Levites, to Ezra the [7>]Sofer[<7], even to give attention to the
words of the law. {8:14} They found written in the law, how that the
LORD had commanded by Moshe, that the children of Yisra'el 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
Yerushalayim, 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 Efrayim.
{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
Yeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Yisra'el 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
Yisra'el were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and
[1>]eretz[<1] on them. {9:2} The seed of Yisra'el 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 the LORD their God a fourth part of the
day; and [another] fourth part they confessed, and worshiped the LORD
their God. {9:4} Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Yeshua,
and Bani, Kadmi'el, Shevanyah, Bunni, Sherevyah, Bani, [and] Kenani,
and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God. {9:5} Then the
Levites, Yeshua, and Kadmi'el, Bani, Hashavneyah, Sherevyah, Hodiyah,
Shevanyah, [and] Petachyah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God
from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name,
which is exalted above all blessing and praise. {9:6} You are the
LORD, even you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens,
with all their host, the [2>]eretz[<2] and all things that are
thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all;
and the host of heaven worships you. {9:7} You are the LORD the God,
who did choose Avram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Kasdim,
and gave him the name of Avraham, {9:8} and found his heart faithful
before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the
Kana`ani, the Hittite, the Amori, and the Perizzi, and the Yevusi, and
the Girgashi, 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
Mitzrayim, and heard their cry by the Sea of Suf, {9:10} and shown
signs and wonders on Par`oh, 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 [3>]mitzvot[<3], {9:14} and made known to
them your holy Shabbat, and commanded them [4>]mitzvot[<4], and
statutes, and a law, by Moshe 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 [5>]mitzvot[<5], {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 Mitzrayim, 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 Sichon, 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
Kana`anim, 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 [6>]mitzvot[<6], 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 [7>]Kohanim[<7], and on our
prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time
of the kings of Ashshur 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
[8>]Kohanim[<8], nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your
[9>]mitzvot[<9] 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 cattle, 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
[10>]Kohanim[<10], seal to it.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:39} priests
[2] {7:63} priests
[3] {7:65} priest
[4] {7:70} priests
[5] {7:72} priests
[6] {7:73} priests
[1] {8:1} scribe
[2] {8:2} priest
[3] {8:4} scribe
[4] {8:9} priest
[5] {8:9} scribe
[6] {8:13} priests
[7] {8:13} scribe
[1] {9:1} earth
[2] {9:6} earth
[3] {9:13} commandments
[4] {9:14} commandments
[5] {9:16} commandments
[6] {9:29} commandments
[7] {9:32} priests
[8] {9:34} priests
[9] {9:34} commandments
[10] {9:38} priests
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