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  Ezra

  1:1 Noing, saying,

  1:2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lod of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; ah charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

  1:3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be he God,) which is in Jerusalem.

  1:4 Andis in Jerusalem.

  1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, he LORD which is in Jerusalem.

  1:6 And all they thatwas willingly offered.

  1:7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, he 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 unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

  1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine ay knives,

  1:10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a sed sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

  1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver o Jerusalem.

  2:1 Noy;

  2:2 Which came he people of Israel:

  2:3 The children of Parosh,o thousand an hundred seventy ando.

  2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy ando.

  2:5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.

  2:6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab,o thousa hundred andelve.

  2:7 The children of Elam, a thousando hundred fifty and four.

  2:8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.

  2:9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

  2:10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty ando.

  2:11 The children of Bebai, six huy and three.

  2:12 The children of Azgad, a thousando huy ando.

  2:13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.

  2:14 The children of Bigvai,o thousand fifty and six.

  2:15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.

  2:16 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ny a.

  2:17 The children of Bezai, three huy and three.

  2:18 The children of Jorah, an hundred andelve.

  2:19 The children of Hashum,o huy and three.

  2:20 The children of Gibbar, ny and five.

  2:21 The children of Bethlehem, an huy and three.

  2:22 The men of ophah, fifty and six.

  2:23 The men of Anathoth, an huy a.

  2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty ando.

  2:25 The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, ah, seven hundred and forty and three.

  2:26 The children of Ramah and Gaba, six huy and one.

  2:27 The men of Michmas, an huy ando.

  2:28 The men of Bethel and Ai,o huy and three.

  2:29 The children of Nebo, fifty ando.

  2:30 The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.

  2:31 The children of the other Elam, a thousando hundred fifty and four.

  2:32 The children of Harim, three hundred ay.

  2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven huy and five.

  2:34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

  2:35 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty.

  2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

  2:37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty ando.

  2:38 The children of Pashur, a thousando hundred forty and seven.

  2:39 The children of Harim, a thousand aeen.

  2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

  2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, an huy a.

  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 an huhirty and nine.

  2:43 The hinims: 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 Shalmai, 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 Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,

  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 Thamah,

  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 Sophereth, 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 of Zebaim, the children of Ami.

  2:58 All the hinims, and the children of Solomon"s servants, hree hundred ny ando.

  2:59 And these hey were of Israel:

  2:60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty ando.

  2:61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; heir name:

  2:62 These sought their register among those that hood.

  2:63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they shouldof the most holy things, till there stood up a priest h Thummim.

  2:64 The hreescore,

  2:65 Beside their servants and their maids, of hemo hundred singing men and singing women.

  2:66 Their horses y and five;

  2:67 Their camels, four huhirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred ay.

  2:68 And some of the chief of the fathers,up in his place:

  2:69 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the s.

  2:70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the hinims, dies.

  3:1 And o Jerusalem.

  3:2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt s thereon, as it is he man of God.

  3:3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fears m and evening.

  3:4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is y of every day required;

  3:5 And afterhe LORD.

  3:6 From the first day of the seventh month begao offer burnt s unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORDlaid.

  3:7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; a, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, t cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, acc to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

  3:8 Nohe LORD.

  3:9 Then stood Jeshua es.

  3:10 And he ordinance of David king of Israel.

  3:11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his merdureth for ever tohe LORD was laid.

  3:12 But many of the priests aes and chief of the fathers, ed aloud for joy:

  3:13 So that the people could not dis the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the he noise was heard afar off.

  4:1 Nohe Lod of Israel;

  4:2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build her.

  4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do hmanded us.

  4:4 Then the people of the land hem in building,

  4:5 And hired sellainst them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

  4:6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, s of Judah and Jerusalem.

  4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes ongue.

  4:8 Rehum the cellor and Shimshai the scribe :

  4:9 Then es,

  4:10 And the rest of the nations ime.

  4:11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.

  4:12 Be it knoions.

  4:13 Be it knohe kings.

  4:14 Nohe king;

  4:15 That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and knoroyed.

  4:16 We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the he river.

  4:17 Thehe king an ansime.

  4:18 The letter h been plainly read before me.

  4:19 And Imanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurre against kings, and that rebellion aion have been made therein.

  4:20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, hem.

  4:21 Give ye no shall be given from me.

  4:22 Take heed nohe kings?

  4:23 Noo cease by ford power.

  4:24 Then ceased the he reign of Darius king of Persia.

  5:1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jehem.

  5:2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God hem.

  5:3 At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and theirpanions, and said thus unto them, Who hathmanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?

  5:4 Then said his building?

  5:5 But the eye of their God er.

  5:6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and hispanions the Apharsachites, he king:

  5:7 They sent a letter unto him, he king, all peace.

  5:8 Be it knoheir hands.

  5:9 Then asked hese walls?

  5:10 We asked their names also, to certify thee, that hem.

  5:11 And thus they returned us ans up.

  5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto o Babylon.

  5:13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

  5:14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, o one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;

  5:15 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, ahe house of God be builded in his place.

  5:16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of Godfinished.

  5:17 Noer.

  6:1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search reasures were laid up in Babylon.

  6:2 And there en:

  6:3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree ing the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place s;

  6:4 With three rohe king"s house:

  6:5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, he house of God.

  6:6 Nohence:

  6:7 Let the his house of God in his place.

  6:8 Moreover I make a decreehindered.

  6:9 And thatfail:

  6:10 That they may offer sacrifices of she king, and of his sons.

  6:11 Also I have made a decree, that his.

  6:12 And the God that hath caused his o dh speed.

  6:13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and theirpanions, acc to that hey did speedily.

  6:14 And the elders of the Jeaxerxes king of Persia.

  6:15 And this house he king.

  6:16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God h joy.

  6:17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks,o hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sinfor all Israel,elve he goats, acc to the number of the tribes of Israel.

  6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, he book of Moses.

  6:19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

  6:20 For the priests and the Levites hemselves.

  6:21 And the children of Israel, ,

  6:22 Ahe feast of unleavened bread seven days he God of Israel.

  7:1 Nohe son of Hilkiah,

  7:2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

  7:3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

  7:4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

  7:5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

  7:6 This Ezra he LORD his God upon him.

  7:7 And there he king.

  7:8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, he king.

  7:9 For upon the first day of the first month begao go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, acc to the good hand of his God upon him.

  7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the las.

  7:11 Noo Israel.

  7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the laime.

  7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests aes, in my realm, hee.

  7:14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven sellors, to enquire ing Judah and Jerusalem, acc to the lahine hand;

  7:15 And to carry the silver and gold, ion is in Jerusalem,

  7:16 And all the silver and gold that thou st find in all the province of Babylon, heir God which is in Jerusalem:

  7:17 That thou mayest buy speedily he house of yod which is in Jerusalem.

  7:18 And he will of yod.

  7:19 The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

  7:20 And reasure house.

  7:21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurersbe done speedily,

  7:22 Unto an hualents of silver, and to an hundred measures ofprescribing how much.

  7:23 Whatsoever ismanded by the God of heave be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for he king and his sons?

  7:24 Also hem.

  7:25 And thou, Ezra, after the .

  7:26 And .

  7:27 Blessed be the Lod of our fathers, he LORD which is in Jerusalem:

  7:28 And hath extended merto me before the king, and his sellors, and before all the king"s mighty princes. And I h me.

  8:1 These are nohe king.

  8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.

  8:3 Of the sons of Sheiah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and y.

  8:4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and h himo hundred males.

  8:5 Of the sons of Sheiah; the son of Jahaziel, and hree hundred males.

  8:6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and y males.

  8:7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and y males.

  8:8 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and h him foursales.

  8:9 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and een males.

  8:10 And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and hreesales.

  8:11 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, andmales.

  8:12 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and en males.

  8:13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, hreesales.

  8:14 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and y males.

  8:15 And I gathered them together to the river that ruh to Ahava; and there abode he sons of Levi.

  8:16 The I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of uanding.

  8:17 And I sent them he house of od.

  8:18 And by the good hand of od upon us they brought us a man of uanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, een;

  8:19 And Hashabiah, and y;

  8:20 Also of the hinims, hem were expressed by name.

  8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that ance.

  8:22 For Iforsake him.

  8:23 So ed of us.

  8:24 Then I separatedelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren hem,

  8:25 And , had offered:

  8:26 I even s;

  8:27 Alsoenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; ando vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

  8:28 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freehers.

  8:29 Watch ye, ahem, until ye he LORD.

  8:30 So took the priests and the Levites the he house of od.

  8:31 Then he way.

  8:32 And hree days.

  8:33 Noes;

  8:34 By number and by ime.

  8:35 Also the children of those that had been carried ahe LORD.

  8:36 And they delivered the king"smissions unto the king"s lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.

  9:1 Noes.

  9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mihemselves respass.

  9:3 And onied.

  9:4 Then he evening sacrifice.

  9:5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and havi my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,

  9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grohe heavens.

  9:7 Sihe days of our fathers have his day.

  9:8 And nole reviving in our bondage.

  9:9 Five us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

  9:10 And nos,

  9:11 Which thou hastmanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto heir unness.

  9:12 Noo your children for ever.

  9:13 And after all that ise upon us for our evil deeds, and for reat trespass, seeing that thou od hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

  9:14 Shouldnor esg?

  9:15 od of Israel, thou art righteous: for his.

  10:1 No very sore.

  10:2 And Sheiah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, anshing.

  10:3 Nohe law.

  10:4 Arise; for this matter beloh unto thee: .

  10:5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to shey sware.

  10:6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, andhad been carried away.

  10:7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

  10:8 And thathad been carried away.

  10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalemrain.

  10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange respass of Israel.

  10:11 Ne wives.

  10:12 Then all the gregation ans we do.

  10:13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and hing.

  10:14 Let nourned from us.

  10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah hem.

  10:16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, er.

  10:17 And they made an end h.

  10:18 And among the sons of the priests there hren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

  10:19 And they gave their hands that they respass.

  10:20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

  10:21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

  10:22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, haneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

  10:23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

  10:24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

  10:25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

  10:26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.

  10:27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

  10:28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

  10:29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.

  10:30 And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

  10:31 And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

  10:32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.

  10:33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

  10:34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

  10:35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,

  10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

  10:37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,

  10:38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,

  10:39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,

  10:40 Maadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

  10:41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

  10:42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

  10:43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.

  10:44 All these had taken strange hey had children.