* BOOK15 EZRA
= CHAPTER 1 
# 1 NOW IN THE FIRST YEAR OF CYRUS KING OF PERSIA, THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD
 BY THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH MIGHT BE FULFILLED, THE LORD STIRRED UP THE SPIRIT
 OF CYRUS KING OF PERSIA, THAT HE MADE A PROCLAMATION THROUGHOUT ALL HIS
 KINGDOM, AND PUT IT ALSO IN WRITING, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SAITH CYRUS KING OF PERSIA, THE LORD GOD OF HEAVEN HATH GIVEN ME ALL
 THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH; AND HE HATH CHARGED ME TO BUILD HIM AN HOUSE AT
 JERUSALEM, WHICH IS IN JUDAH.
# 3 WHO IS THERE 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 THE LORD
 GOD OF ISRAEL, (HE IS THE GOD,) WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM.
# 4 AND WHOSOEVER REMAINETH IN ANY PLACE WHERE HE SOJOURNETH, LET THE MEN OF
 HIS PLACE HELP HIM WITH SILVER, AND WITH GOLD, AND WITH GOODS, AND WITH
 BEASTS, BESIDE THE FREEWILL OFFERING FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD THAT IS IN
 JERUSALEM.
# 5 THEN ROSE UP THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN, AND THE
 PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, WITH ALL THEM WHOSE SPIRIT GOD HAD RAISED, TO GO UP
 TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM.
# 6 AND ALL THEY THAT WERE ABOUT THEM STRENGTHENED THEIR HANDS WITH VESSELS
 OF SILVER, WITH GOLD, WITH GOODS, AND WITH BEASTS, AND WITH PRECIOUS THINGS,
 BESIDE ALL THAT WAS WILLINGLY OFFERED.
# 7 ALSO CYRUS THE KING BROUGHT FORTH THE VESSELS OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,
 WHICH NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD BROUGHT FORTH OUT OF JERUSALEM, AND HAD PUT THEM IN
 THE HOUSE OF HIS GODS;
# 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.
# 9 AND THIS IS THE NUMBER OF THEM: THIRTY CHARGERS OF GOLD, A THOUSAND
 CHARGERS OF SILVER, NINE AND TWENTY KNIVES,
# 10 THIRTY BASONS OF GOLD, SILVER BASONS OF A SECOND SORT FOUR HUNDRED AND
 TEN, AND OTHER VESSELS A THOUSAND.
# 11 ALL THE VESSELS OF GOLD AND OF SILVER WERE FIVE THOUSAND AND FOUR
 HUNDRED. ALL THESE DID SHESHBAZZAR BRING UP WITH THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY THAT
 WERE BROUGHT UP FROM BABYLON UNTO JERUSALEM.
= CHAPTER 2 
# 1 NOW THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROVINCE THAT WENT UP OUT OF THE
 CAPTIVITY, OF THOSE WHICH HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY, WHOM NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING
 OF BABYLON HAD CARRIED AWAY UNTO BABYLON, AND CAME AGAIN UNTO JERUSALEM AND
 JUDAH, EVERY ONE UNTO HIS CITY;
# 2 WHICH CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL: JESHUA, NEHEMIAH, SERAIAH, REELAIAH,
 MORDECAI, BILSHAN, MIZPAR, BIGVAI, REHUM, BAANAH. THE NUMBER OF THE MEN OF
 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL:
# 3 THE CHILDREN OF PAROSH, TWO THOUSAND AN HUNDRED SEVENTY AND TWO.
# 4 THE CHILDREN OF SHEPHATIAH, THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY AND TWO.
# 5 THE CHILDREN OF ARAH, SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY AND FIVE.
# 6 THE CHILDREN OF PAHATHMOAB, OF THE CHILDREN OF JESHUA AND JOAB, TWO
 THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWELVE.
# 7 THE CHILDREN OF ELAM, A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY AND FOUR.
# 8 THE CHILDREN OF ZATTU, NINE HUNDRED FORTY AND FIVE.
# 9 THE CHILDREN OF ZACCAI, SEVEN HUNDRED AND THREESCORE.
# 10 THE CHILDREN OF BANI, SIX HUNDRED FORTY AND TWO.
# 11 THE CHILDREN OF BEBAI, SIX HUNDRED TWENTY AND THREE.
# 12 THE CHILDREN OF AZGAD, A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWENTY AND TWO.
# 13 THE CHILDREN OF ADONIKAM, SIX HUNDRED SIXTY AND SIX.
# 14 THE CHILDREN OF BIGVAI, TWO THOUSAND FIFTY AND SIX.
# 15 THE CHILDREN OF ADIN, FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY AND FOUR.
# 16 THE CHILDREN OF ATER OF HEZEKIAH, NINETY AND EIGHT.
# 17 THE CHILDREN OF BEZAI, THREE HUNDRED TWENTY AND THREE.
# 18 THE CHILDREN OF JORAH, AN HUNDRED AND TWELVE.
# 19 THE CHILDREN OF HASHUM, TWO HUNDRED TWENTY AND THREE.
# 20 THE CHILDREN OF GIBBAR, NINETY AND FIVE.
# 21 THE CHILDREN OF BETHLEHEM, AN HUNDRED TWENTY AND THREE.
# 22 THE MEN OF NETOPHAH, FIFTY AND SIX.
# 23 THE MEN OF ANATHOTH, AN HUNDRED TWENTY AND EIGHT.
# 24 THE CHILDREN OF AZMAVETH, FORTY AND TWO.
# 25 THE CHILDREN OF KIRJATHARIM, CHEPHIRAH, AND BEEROTH, SEVEN HUNDRED AND
 FORTY AND THREE.
# 26 THE CHILDREN OF RAMAH AND GABA, SIX HUNDRED TWENTY AND ONE.
# 27 THE MEN OF MICHMAS, AN HUNDRED TWENTY AND TWO.
# 28 THE MEN OF BETHEL AND AI, TWO HUNDRED TWENTY AND THREE.
# 29 THE CHILDREN OF NEBO, FIFTY AND TWO.
# 30 THE CHILDREN OF MAGBISH, AN HUNDRED FIFTY AND SIX.
# 31 THE CHILDREN OF THE OTHER ELAM, A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY AND FOUR.
# 32 THE CHILDREN OF HARIM, THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
# 33 THE CHILDREN OF LOD, HADID, AND ONO, SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY AND FIVE.
# 34 THE CHILDREN OF JERICHO, THREE HUNDRED FORTY AND FIVE.
# 35 THE CHILDREN OF SENAAH, THREE THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY.
# 36 THE PRIESTS: THE CHILDREN OF JEDAIAH, OF THE HOUSE OF JESHUA, NINE
 HUNDRED SEVENTY AND THREE.
# 37 THE CHILDREN OF IMMER, A THOUSAND FIFTY AND TWO.
# 38 THE CHILDREN OF PASHUR, A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FORTY AND SEVEN.
# 39 THE CHILDREN OF HARIM, A THOUSAND AND SEVENTEEN.
# 40 THE LEVITES: THE CHILDREN OF JESHUA AND KADMIEL, OF THE CHILDREN OF
 HODAVIAH, SEVENTY AND FOUR.
# 41 THE SINGERS: THE CHILDREN OF ASAPH, AN HUNDRED TWENTY AND EIGHT.
# 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 HUNDRED THIRTY AND NINE.
# 43 THE NETHINIMS: THE CHILDREN OF ZIHA, THE CHILDREN OF HASUPHA, THE
 CHILDREN OF TABBAOTH,
# 44 THE CHILDREN OF KEROS, THE CHILDREN OF SIAHA, THE CHILDREN OF PADON,
# 45 THE CHILDREN OF LEBANAH, THE CHILDREN OF HAGABAH, THE CHILDREN OF AKKUB,
# 46 THE CHILDREN OF HAGAB, THE CHILDREN OF SHALMAI, THE CHILDREN OF HANAN,
# 47 THE CHILDREN OF GIDDEL, THE CHILDREN OF GAHAR, THE CHILDREN OF REAIAH,
# 48 THE CHILDREN OF REZIN, THE CHILDREN OF NEKODA, THE CHILDREN OF GAZZAM,
# 49 THE CHILDREN OF UZZA, THE CHILDREN OF PASEAH, THE CHILDREN OF BESAI,
# 50 THE CHILDREN OF ASNAH, THE CHILDREN OF MEHUNIM, THE CHILDREN OF
 NEPHUSIM,
# 51 THE CHILDREN OF BAKBUK, THE CHILDREN OF HAKUPHA, THE CHILDREN OF HARHUR,
# 52 THE CHILDREN OF BAZLUTH, THE CHILDREN OF MEHIDA, THE CHILDREN OF HARSHA,
# 53 THE CHILDREN OF BARKOS, THE CHILDREN OF SISERA, THE CHILDREN OF THAMAH,
# 54 THE CHILDREN OF NEZIAH, THE CHILDREN OF HATIPHA.
# 55 THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMONS SERVANTS: THE CHILDREN OF SOTAI, THE CHILDREN
 OF SOPHERETH, THE CHILDREN OF PERUDA,
# 56 THE CHILDREN OF JAALAH, THE CHILDREN OF DARKON, THE CHILDREN OF GIDDEL,
# 57 THE CHILDREN OF SHEPHATIAH, THE CHILDREN OF HATTIL, THE CHILDREN OF
 POCHERETH OF ZEBAIM, THE CHILDREN OF AMI.
# 58 ALL THE NETHINIMS, AND THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMONS SERVANTS, WERE THREE
 HUNDRED NINETY AND TWO.
# 59 AND THESE WERE THEY WHICH WENT UP FROM TELMELAH, TELHARSA, CHERUB,
 ADDAN, AND IMMER: BUT THEY COULD NOT SHEW THEIR FATHERS HOUSE, AND THEIR
 SEED, WHETHER THEY WERE OF ISRAEL:
# 60 THE CHILDREN OF DELAIAH, THE CHILDREN OF TOBIAH, THE CHILDREN OF NEKODA,
 SIX HUNDRED FIFTY AND TWO.
# 61 AND OF THE CHILDREN OF THE PRIESTS: THE CHILDREN OF HABAIAH, THE
 CHILDREN OF KOZ, THE CHILDREN OF BARZILLAI; WHICH TOOK A WIFE OF THE
 DAUGHTERS OF BARZILLAI THE GILEADITE, AND WAS CALLED AFTER THEIR NAME:
# 62 THESE SOUGHT THEIR REGISTER AMONG THOSE THAT WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY,
 BUT THEY WERE NOT FOUND: THEREFORE WERE THEY, AS POLLUTED, PUT FROM THE
 PRIESTHOOD.
# 63 AND THE TIRSHATHA SAID UNTO THEM, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT EAT OF THE MOST
 HOLY THINGS, TILL THERE STOOD UP A PRIEST WITH URIM AND WITH THUMMIM.
# 64 THE WHOLE CONGREGATION TOGETHER WAS FORTY AND TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED
 AND THREESCORE,
# 65 BESIDE THEIR SERVANTS AND THEIR MAIDS, OF WHOM THERE WERE SEVEN THOUSAND
 THREE HUNDRED THIRTY AND SEVEN: AND THERE WERE AMONG THEM TWO HUNDRED SINGING
 MEN AND SINGING WOMEN.
# 66 THEIR HORSES WERE SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY AND SIX; THEIR MULES, TWO HUNDRED
 FORTY AND FIVE;
# 67 THEIR CAMELS, FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY AND FIVE; THEIR ASSES, SIX THOUSAND
 SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
# 68 AND SOME OF THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS, WHEN THEY CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE
 LORD WHICH IS AT JERUSALEM, OFFERED FREELY FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD TO SET IT UP
 IN HIS PLACE:
# 69 THEY GAVE AFTER THEIR ABILITY UNTO THE TREASURE OF THE WORK THREESCORE
 AND ONE THOUSAND DRAMS OF GOLD, AND FIVE THOUSAND POUND OF SILVER, AND ONE
 HUNDRED PRIESTS GARMENTS.
# 70 SO THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE
 SINGERS, AND THE PORTERS, AND THE NETHINIMS, DWELT IN THEIR CITIES, AND ALL
 ISRAEL IN THEIR CITIES.
= CHAPTER 3 
# 1 AND 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.
# 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 OFFERINGS THEREON, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN
 THE LAW OF MOSES THE MAN OF GOD.
# 3 AND THEY SET THE ALTAR UPON HIS BASES; FOR FEAR WAS UPON THEM BECAUSE OF
 THE PEOPLE OF THOSE COUNTRIES: AND THEY OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS THEREON UNTO
 THE LORD, EVEN BURNT OFFERINGS MORNING AND EVENING.
# 4 THEY KEPT ALSO THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, AS IT IS WRITTEN, AND OFFERED
 THE DAILY BURNT OFFERINGS BY NUMBER, ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM, AS THE DUTY OF
 EVERY DAY REQUIRED;
# 5 AND AFTERWARD OFFERED THE CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING, BOTH OF THE NEW
 MOONS, AND OF ALL THE SET FEASTS OF THE LORD THAT WERE CONSECRATED, AND OF
 EVERY ONE THAT WILLINGLY OFFERED A FREEWILL OFFERING UNTO THE LORD.
# 6 FROM THE FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH BEGAN THEY TO OFFER BURNT
 OFFERINGS UNTO THE LORD. BUT THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD WAS NOT
 YET LAID.
# 7 THEY GAVE MONEY ALSO UNTO THE MASONS, AND TO THE CARPENTERS; AND MEAT,
 AND DRINK, AND OIL, UNTO THEM OF ZIDON, AND TO THEM OF TYRE, TO BRING CEDAR
 TREES FROM LEBANON TO THE SEA OF JOPPA, ACCORDING TO THE GRANT THAT THEY HAD
 OF CYRUS KING OF PERSIA.
# 8 NOW IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THEIR COMING UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD AT
 JERUSALEM, IN THE SECOND MONTH, BEGAN ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, AND
 JESHUA THE SON OF JOZADAK, AND THE REMNANT OF THEIR BRETHREN THE PRIESTS AND
 THE LEVITES, AND ALL THEY THAT WERE COME OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY UNTO JERUSALEM;
 AND APPOINTED THE LEVITES, FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, TO SET FORWARD
 THE WORK OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
# 9 THEN STOOD JESHUA WITH HIS SONS AND HIS BRETHREN, KADMIEL AND HIS SONS,
 THE SONS OF JUDAH, TOGETHER, TO SET FORWARD THE WORKMEN IN THE HOUSE OF GOD:
 THE SONS OF HENADAD, WITH THEIR SONS AND THEIR BRETHREN THE LEVITES.
# 10 AND WHEN THE BUILDERS LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD,
 THEY SET THE PRIESTS IN THEIR APPAREL WITH TRUMPETS, AND THE LEVITES THE SONS
 OF ASAPH WITH CYMBALS, TO PRAISE THE LORD, AFTER THE ORDINANCE OF DAVID KING
 OF ISRAEL.
# 11 AND THEY SANG TOGETHER BY COURSE IN PRAISING AND GIVING THANKS UNTO THE
 LORD; BECAUSE HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOR EVER TOWARD ISRAEL. AND
 ALL THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, WHEN THEY PRAISED THE LORD,
 BECAUSE THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WAS LAID.
# 12 BUT MANY OF THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES AND CHIEF OF THE FATHERS, WHO WERE
 ANCIENT MEN, THAT 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:
# 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.
= CHAPTER 4 
# 1 NOW WHEN THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN HEARD THAT THE CHILDREN OF
 THE CAPTIVITY BUILDED THE TEMPLE UNTO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL;
# 2 THEN THEY CAME TO ZERUBBABEL, AND TO THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS, AND SAID
 UNTO THEM, LET US BUILD WITH YOU: FOR WE SEEK YOUR GOD, AS YE DO; AND WE DO
 SACRIFICE UNTO HIM SINCE THE DAYS OF ESARHADDON KING OF ASSUR, WHICH BROUGHT
 US UP HITHER.
# 3 BUT ZERUBBABEL, AND JESHUA, AND THE REST OF THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF
 ISRAEL, SAID UNTO THEM, YE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH US TO BUILD AN HOUSE UNTO
 OUR GOD; BUT WE OURSELVES TOGETHER WILL BUILD UNTO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, AS
 KING CYRUS THE KING OF PERSIA HATH COMMANDED US.
# 4 THEN THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND WEAKENED THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH,
 AND TROUBLED THEM IN BUILDING,
# 5 AND HIRED COUNSELLORS AGAINST THEM, TO FRUSTRATE THEIR PURPOSE, ALL THE
 DAYS OF CYRUS KING OF PERSIA, EVEN UNTIL THE REIGN OF DARIUS KING OF PERSIA.
# 6 AND IN THE REIGN OF AHASUERUS, IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS REIGN, WROTE THEY
 UNTO HIM AN ACCUSATION AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM.
# 7 AND IN THE DAYS OF ARTAXERXES WROTE BISHLAM, MITHREDATH, TABEEL, AND THE
 REST OF THEIR COMPANIONS, UNTO ARTAXERXES KING OF PERSIA; AND THE WRITING OF
 THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN IN THE SYRIAN TONGUE, AND INTERPRETED IN THE SYRIAN
 TONGUE.
# 8 REHUM THE CHANCELLOR AND SHIMSHAI THE SCRIBE WROTE A LETTER AGAINST
 JERUSALEM TO ARTAXERXES THE KING IN THIS SORT:
# 9 THEN WROTE REHUM THE CHANCELLOR, AND SHIMSHAI THE SCRIBE, AND THE REST OF
 THEIR COMPANIONS; THE DINAITES, THE APHARSATHCHITES, THE TARPELITES, THE
 APHARSITES, THE ARCHEVITES, THE BABYLONIANS, THE SUSANCHITES, THE DEHAVITES,
 AND THE ELAMITES,
# 10 AND THE REST OF THE NATIONS WHOM THE GREAT AND NOBLE ASNAPPER BROUGHT
 OVER, AND SET IN THE CITIES OF SAMARIA, AND THE REST THAT ARE ON THIS SIDE
 THE RIVER, AND AT SUCH A TIME.
# 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.
# 12 BE IT KNOWN UNTO THE KING, THAT THE JEWS WHICH CAME UP FROM THEE TO US
 ARE COME UNTO JERUSALEM, BUILDING THE REBELLIOUS AND THE BAD CITY, AND HAVE
 SET UP THE WALLS THEREOF, AND JOINED THE FOUNDATIONS.
# 13 BE IT KNOWN NOW UNTO THE KING, THAT, IF THIS CITY BE BUILDED, AND THE
 WALLS SET UP AGAIN, THEN WILL THEY NOT PAY TOLL, TRIBUTE, AND CUSTOM, AND SO
 THOU SHALT ENDAMAGE THE REVENUE OF THE KINGS.
# 14 NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE MAINTENANCE FROM THE KINGS PALACE, AND IT WAS NOT
 MEET FOR US TO SEE THE KINGS DISHONOUR, THEREFORE HAVE WE SENT AND CERTIFIED
 THE KING;
# 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 KNOW THAT THIS CITY IS A
 REBELLIOUS CITY, AND HURTFUL UNTO KINGS AND PROVINCES, AND THAT THEY HAVE
 MOVED SEDITION WITHIN THE SAME OF OLD TIME: FOR WHICH CAUSE WAS THIS CITY
 DESTROYED.
# 16 WE CERTIFY THE KING THAT, IF THIS CITY BE BUILDED AGAIN, AND THE WALLS
 THEREOF SET UP, BY THIS MEANS THOU SHALT HAVE NO PORTION ON THIS SIDE THE
 RIVER.
# 17 THEN SENT THE KING AN ANSWER UNTO REHUM THE CHANCELLOR, AND TO SHIMSHAI
 THE SCRIBE, AND TO THE REST OF THEIR COMPANIONS THAT DWELL IN SAMARIA, AND
 UNTO THE REST BEYOND THE RIVER, PEACE, AND AT SUCH A TIME.
# 18 THE LETTER WHICH YE SENT UNTO US HATH BEEN PLAINLY READ BEFORE ME.
# 19 AND I COMMANDED, AND SEARCH HATH BEEN MADE, AND IT IS FOUND THAT THIS
 CITY OF OLD TIME HATH MADE INSURRECTION AGAINST KINGS, AND THAT REBELLION AND
 SEDITION HAVE BEEN MADE THEREIN.
# 20 THERE HAVE BEEN MIGHTY KINGS ALSO OVER JERUSALEM, WHICH HAVE RULED OVER
 ALL COUNTRIES BEYOND THE RIVER; AND TOLL, TRIBUTE, AND CUSTOM, WAS PAID UNTO
 THEM.
# 21 GIVE YE NOW COMMANDMENT TO CAUSE THESE MEN TO CEASE, AND THAT THIS CITY
 BE NOT BUILDED, UNTIL ANOTHER COMMANDMENT SHALL BE GIVEN FROM ME.
# 22 TAKE HEED NOW THAT YE FAIL NOT TO DO THIS: WHY SHOULD DAMAGE GROW TO THE
 HURT OF THE KINGS?
# 23 NOW WHEN THE COPY OF KING ARTAXERXES LETTER WAS READ BEFORE REHUM, AND
 SHIMSHAI THE SCRIBE, AND THEIR COMPANIONS, THEY WENT UP IN HASTE TO JERUSALEM
 UNTO THE JEWS, AND MADE THEM TO CEASE BY FORCE AND POWER.
# 24 THEN CEASED THE WORK OF THE HOUSE OF GOD WHICH IS AT JERUSALEM. SO IT
 CEASED UNTO THE SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF DARIUS KING OF PERSIA.
= CHAPTER 5 
# 1 THEN THE PROPHETS, HAGGAI THE PROPHET, AND ZECHARIAH THE SON OF IDDO,
 PROPHESIED UNTO THE JEWS THAT WERE IN JUDAH AND JERUSALEM IN THE NAME OF THE
 GOD OF ISRAEL, EVEN UNTO THEM.
# 2 THEN ROSE UP ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, AND JESHUA THE SON OF
 JOZADAK, AND BEGAN TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF GOD WHICH IS AT JERUSALEM: AND WITH
 THEM WERE THE PROPHETS OF GOD HELPING THEM.
# 3 AT THE SAME TIME CAME TO THEM TATNAI, GOVERNOR ON THIS SIDE THE RIVER,
 AND SHETHARBOZNAI AND THEIR COMPANIONS, AND SAID THUS UNTO THEM, WHO HATH
 COMMANDED YOU TO BUILD THIS HOUSE, AND TO MAKE UP THIS WALL?
# 4 THEN SAID WE UNTO THEM AFTER THIS MANNER, WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE MEN
 THAT MAKE THIS BUILDING?
# 5 BUT THE EYE OF THEIR GOD WAS UPON THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS, THAT THEY COULD
 NOT CAUSE THEM TO CEASE, TILL THE MATTER CAME TO DARIUS: AND THEN THEY
 RETURNED ANSWER BY LETTER CONCERNING THIS MATTER.
# 6 THE COPY OF THE LETTER THAT TATNAI, GOVERNOR ON THIS SIDE THE RIVER, AND
 SHETHARBOZNAI AND HIS COMPANIONS THE APHARSACHITES, WHICH WERE ON THIS SIDE
 THE RIVER, SENT UNTO DARIUS THE KING:
# 7 THEY SENT A LETTER UNTO HIM, WHEREIN WAS WRITTEN THUS; UNTO DARIUS THE
 KING, ALL PEACE.
# 8 BE IT KNOWN UNTO THE KING, THAT WE WENT INTO THE PROVINCE OF JUDEA, TO
 THE HOUSE OF THE GREAT GOD, WHICH IS BUILDED WITH GREAT STONES, AND TIMBER IS
 LAID IN THE WALLS, AND THIS WORK GOETH FAST ON, AND PROSPERETH IN THEIR
 HANDS.
# 9 THEN ASKED WE THOSE ELDERS, AND SAID UNTO THEM THUS, WHO COMMANDED YOU TO
 BUILD THIS HOUSE, AND TO MAKE UP THESE WALLS?
# 10 WE ASKED THEIR NAMES ALSO, TO CERTIFY THEE, THAT WE MIGHT WRITE THE
 NAMES OF THE MEN THAT WERE THE CHIEF OF THEM.
# 11 AND THUS THEY RETURNED US ANSWER, SAYING, WE ARE THE SERVANTS OF THE GOD
 OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND BUILD THE HOUSE THAT WAS BUILDED THESE MANY YEARS
 AGO, WHICH A GREAT KING OF ISRAEL BUILDED AND SET UP.
# 12 BUT AFTER THAT OUR FATHERS HAD PROVOKED THE GOD OF HEAVEN UNTO WRATH, HE
 GAVE THEM INTO THE HAND OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON, THE CHALDEAN,
 WHO DESTROYED THIS HOUSE, AND CARRIED THE PEOPLE AWAY INTO BABYLON.
# 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.
# 14 AND THE VESSELS ALSO OF GOLD AND SILVER OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, WHICH
 NEBUCHADNEZZAR TOOK OUT OF THE TEMPLE THAT WAS IN JERUSALEM, AND BROUGHT THEM
 INTO THE TEMPLE OF BABYLON, THOSE DID CYRUS THE KING TAKE OUT OF THE TEMPLE
 OF BABYLON, AND THEY WERE DELIVERED UNTO ONE, WHOSE NAME WAS SHESHBAZZAR,
 WHOM HE HAD MADE GOVERNOR;
# 15 AND SAID UNTO HIM, TAKE THESE VESSELS, GO, CARRY THEM INTO THE TEMPLE
 THAT IS IN JERUSALEM, AND LET THE HOUSE OF GOD BE BUILDED IN HIS PLACE.
# 16 THEN CAME THE SAME SHESHBAZZAR, AND LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE OF
 GOD WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM: AND SINCE THAT TIME EVEN UNTIL NOW HATH IT BEEN IN
 BUILDING, AND YET IT IS NOT FINISHED.
# 17 NOW THEREFORE, IF IT SEEM GOOD TO THE KING, LET THERE BE SEARCH MADE IN
 THE KINGS TREASURE HOUSE, WHICH IS THERE AT BABYLON, WHETHER IT BE SO, THAT A
 DECREE WAS MADE OF CYRUS THE KING TO BUILD THIS HOUSE OF GOD AT JERUSALEM,
 AND LET THE KING SEND HIS PLEASURE TO US CONCERNING THIS MATTER.
= CHAPTER 6 
# 1 THEN DARIUS THE KING MADE A DECREE, AND SEARCH WAS MADE IN THE HOUSE OF
 THE ROLLS, WHERE THE TREASURES WERE LAID UP IN BABYLON.
# 2 AND THERE WAS FOUND AT ACHMETHA, IN THE PALACE THAT IS IN THE PROVINCE OF
 THE MEDES, A ROLL, AND THEREIN WAS A RECORD THUS WRITTEN:
# 3 IN THE FIRST YEAR OF CYRUS THE KING THE SAME CYRUS THE KING MADE A DECREE
 CONCERNING THE HOUSE OF GOD AT JERUSALEM, LET THE HOUSE BE BUILDED, THE PLACE
 WHERE THEY OFFERED SACRIFICES, AND LET THE FOUNDATIONS THEREOF BE STRONGLY
 LAID; THE HEIGHT THEREOF THREESCORE CUBITS, AND THE BREADTH THEREOF
 THREESCORE CUBITS;
# 4 WITH THREE ROWS OF GREAT STONES, AND A ROW OF NEW TIMBER: AND LET THE
 EXPENSES BE GIVEN OUT OF THE KINGS HOUSE:
# 5 AND ALSO LET THE GOLDEN AND SILVER VESSELS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, WHICH
 NEBUCHADNEZZAR TOOK FORTH OUT OF THE TEMPLE WHICH IS AT JERUSALEM, AND
 BROUGHT UNTO BABYLON, BE RESTORED, AND BROUGHT AGAIN UNTO THE TEMPLE WHICH IS
 AT JERUSALEM, EVERY ONE TO HIS PLACE, AND PLACE THEM IN THE HOUSE OF GOD.
# 6 NOW THEREFORE, TATNAI, GOVERNOR BEYOND THE RIVER, SHETHARBOZNAI, AND YOUR
 COMPANIONS THE APHARSACHITES, WHICH ARE BEYOND THE RIVER, BE YE FAR FROM
 THENCE:
# 7 LET THE WORK OF THIS HOUSE OF GOD ALONE; LET THE GOVERNOR OF THE JEWS AND
 THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS BUILD THIS HOUSE OF GOD IN HIS PLACE.
# 8 MOREOVER I MAKE A DECREE WHAT YE SHALL DO TO THE ELDERS OF THESE JEWS FOR
 THE BUILDING OF THIS HOUSE OF GOD: THAT OF THE KINGS GOODS, EVEN OF THE
 TRIBUTE BEYOND THE RIVER, FORTHWITH EXPENSES BE GIVEN UNTO THESE MEN, THAT
 THEY BE NOT HINDERED.
# 9 AND THAT WHICH THEY HAVE NEED OF, BOTH YOUNG BULLOCKS, AND RAMS, AND
 LAMBS, FOR THE BURNT OFFERINGS OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN, WHEAT, SALT, WINE, AND
 OIL, ACCORDING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF THE PRIESTS WHICH ARE AT JERUSALEM, LET
 IT BE GIVEN THEM DAY BY DAY WITHOUT FAIL:
# 10 THAT THEY MAY OFFER SACRIFICES OF SWEET SAVOURS UNTO THE GOD OF HEAVEN,
 AND PRAY FOR THE LIFE OF THE KING, AND OF HIS SONS.
# 11 ALSO I HAVE MADE A DECREE, THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL ALTER THIS WORD, LET
 TIMBER BE PULLED DOWN FROM HIS HOUSE, AND BEING SET UP, LET HIM BE HANGED
 THEREON; AND LET HIS HOUSE BE MADE A DUNGHILL FOR THIS.
# 12 AND THE GOD THAT HATH CAUSED HIS NAME TO DWELL THERE DESTROY ALL KINGS
 AND PEOPLE, THAT SHALL PUT TO THEIR HAND TO ALTER AND TO DESTROY THIS HOUSE
 OF GOD WHICH IS AT JERUSALEM. I DARIUS HAVE MADE A DECREE; LET IT BE DONE
 WITH SPEED.
# 13 THEN TATNAI, GOVERNOR ON THIS SIDE THE RIVER, SHETHARBOZNAI, AND THEIR
 COMPANIONS, ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH DARIUS THE KING HAD SENT, SO THEY DID
 SPEEDILY.
# 14 AND THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS BUILDED, AND THEY PROSPERED THROUGH THE
 PROPHESYING OF HAGGAI THE PROPHET AND ZECHARIAH THE SON OF IDDO. AND THEY
 BUILDED, AND FINISHED IT, ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
 AND ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF CYRUS, AND DARIUS, AND ARTAXERXES KING OF
 PERSIA.
# 15 AND THIS HOUSE WAS FINISHED ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE MONTH ADAR, WHICH
 WAS IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF DARIUS THE KING.
# 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
 WITH JOY.
# 17 AND OFFERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THIS HOUSE OF GOD AN HUNDRED BULLOCKS,
 TWO HUNDRED RAMS, FOUR HUNDRED LAMBS; AND FOR A SIN OFFERING FOR ALL ISRAEL,
 TWELVE HE GOATS, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
# 18 AND THEY SET THE PRIESTS IN THEIR DIVISIONS, AND THE LEVITES IN THEIR
 COURSES, FOR THE SERVICE OF GOD, WHICH IS AT JERUSALEM; AS IT IS WRITTEN IN
 THE BOOK OF MOSES.
# 19 AND THE CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY KEPT THE PASSOVER UPON THE FOURTEENTH
 DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH.
# 20 FOR THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES WERE PURIFIED TOGETHER, ALL OF THEM WERE
 PURE, AND KILLED THE PASSOVER FOR ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY, AND FOR
 THEIR BRETHREN THE PRIESTS, AND FOR THEMSELVES.
# 21 AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHICH WERE COME AGAIN OUT OF CAPTIVITY, AND
 ALL SUCH AS HAD SEPARATED THEMSELVES UNTO THEM FROM THE FILTHINESS OF THE
 HEATHEN OF THE LAND, TO SEEK THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, DID EAT,
# 22 AND KEPT THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD SEVEN DAYS WITH JOY: FOR THE LORD
 HAD MADE THEM JOYFUL, AND TURNED THE HEART OF THE KING OF ASSYRIA UNTO THEM,
 TO STRENGTHEN THEIR HANDS IN THE WORK OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
= CHAPTER 7 
# 1 NOW AFTER THESE THINGS, IN THE REIGN OF ARTAXERXES KING OF PERSIA, EZRA
 THE SON OF SERAIAH, THE SON OF AZARIAH, THE SON OF HILKIAH,
# 2 THE SON OF SHALLUM, THE SON OF ZADOK, THE SON OF AHITUB,
# 3 THE SON OF AMARIAH, THE SON OF AZARIAH, THE SON OF MERAIOTH,
# 4 THE SON OF ZERAHIAH, THE SON OF UZZI, THE SON OF BUKKI,
# 5 THE SON OF ABISHUA, THE SON OF PHINEHAS, THE SON OF ELEAZAR, THE SON OF
 AARON THE CHIEF PRIEST:
# 6 THIS EZRA WENT UP FROM BABYLON; AND HE WAS A READY SCRIBE IN THE LAW OF
 MOSES, WHICH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL HAD GIVEN: AND THE KING GRANTED HIM ALL
 HIS REQUEST, ACCORDING TO THE HAND OF THE LORD HIS GOD UPON HIM.
# 7 AND THERE WENT UP SOME OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND OF THE PRIESTS, AND
 THE LEVITES, AND THE SINGERS, AND THE PORTERS, AND THE NETHINIMS, UNTO
 JERUSALEM, IN THE SEVENTH YEAR OF ARTAXERXES THE KING.
# 8 AND HE CAME TO JERUSALEM IN THE FIFTH MONTH, WHICH WAS IN THE SEVENTH
 YEAR OF THE KING.
# 9 FOR UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH BEGAN HE TO GO UP FROM BABYLON,
 AND ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIFTH MONTH CAME HE TO JERUSALEM, ACCORDING TO
 THE GOOD HAND OF HIS GOD UPON HIM.
# 10 FOR EZRA HAD PREPARED HIS HEART TO SEEK THE LAW OF THE LORD, AND TO DO
 IT, AND TO TEACH IN ISRAEL STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS.
# 11 NOW THIS IS THE COPY OF THE LETTER THAT THE KING ARTAXERXES GAVE UNTO
 EZRA THE PRIEST, THE SCRIBE, EVEN A SCRIBE OF THE WORDS OF THE COMMANDMENTS
 OF THE LORD, AND OF HIS STATUTES TO ISRAEL.
# 12 ARTAXERXES, KING OF KINGS, UNTO EZRA THE PRIEST, A SCRIBE OF THE LAW OF
 THE GOD OF HEAVEN, PERFECT PEACE, AND AT SUCH A TIME.
# 13 I MAKE A DECREE, THAT ALL THEY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, AND OF HIS
 PRIESTS AND LEVITES, IN MY REALM, WHICH ARE MINDED OF THEIR OWN FREEWILL TO
 GO UP TO JERUSALEM, GO WITH THEE.
# 14 FORASMUCH AS THOU ART SENT OF THE KING, AND OF HIS SEVEN COUNSELLORS, TO
 ENQUIRE CONCERNING JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THY GOD WHICH
 IS IN THINE HAND;
# 15 AND TO CARRY THE SILVER AND GOLD, WHICH THE KING AND HIS COUNSELLORS
 HAVE FREELY OFFERED UNTO THE GOD OF ISRAEL, WHOSE HABITATION IS IN JERUSALEM,
# 16 AND ALL THE SILVER AND GOLD THAT THOU CANST FIND IN ALL THE PROVINCE OF
 BABYLON, WITH THE FREEWILL OFFERING OF THE PEOPLE, AND OF THE PRIESTS,
 OFFERING WILLINGLY FOR THE HOUSE OF THEIR GOD WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM:
# 17 THAT THOU MAYEST BUY SPEEDILY WITH THIS MONEY BULLOCKS, RAMS, LAMBS,
 WITH THEIR MEAT OFFERINGS AND THEIR DRINK OFFERINGS, AND OFFER THEM UPON THE
 ALTAR OF THE HOUSE OF YOUR GOD WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM.
# 18 AND WHATSOEVER SHALL SEEM GOOD TO THEE, AND TO THY BRETHREN, TO DO WITH
 THE REST OF THE SILVER AND THE GOLD, THAT DO AFTER THE WILL OF YOUR GOD.
# 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.
# 20 AND WHATSOEVER MORE SHALL BE NEEDFUL FOR THE HOUSE OF THY GOD, WHICH
 THOU SHALT HAVE OCCASION TO BESTOW, BESTOW IT OUT OF THE KINGS TREASURE
 HOUSE.
# 21 AND I, EVEN I ARTAXERXES THE KING, DO MAKE A DECREE TO ALL THE
 TREASURERS WHICH ARE BEYOND THE RIVER, THAT WHATSOEVER EZRA THE PRIEST, THE
 SCRIBE OF THE LAW OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN, SHALL REQUIRE OF YOU, IT BE DONE
 SPEEDILY,
# 22 UNTO AN HUNDRED TALENTS OF SILVER, AND TO AN HUNDRED MEASURES OF WHEAT,
 AND TO AN HUNDRED BATHS OF WINE, AND TO AN HUNDRED BATHS OF OIL, AND SALT
 WITHOUT PRESCRIBING HOW MUCH.
# 23 WHATSOEVER IS COMMANDED BY THE GOD OF HEAVEN, LET IT BE DILIGENTLY DONE
 FOR THE HOUSE OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN: FOR WHY SHOULD THERE BE WRATH AGAINST THE
 REALM OF THE KING AND HIS SONS?
# 24 ALSO WE CERTIFY YOU, THAT TOUCHING ANY OF THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES,
 SINGERS, PORTERS, NETHINIMS, OR MINISTERS OF THIS HOUSE OF GOD, IT SHALL NOT
 BE LAWFUL TO IMPOSE TOLL, TRIBUTE, OR CUSTOM, UPON THEM.
# 25 AND THOU, EZRA, AFTER THE WISDOM OF THY GOD, THAT IS IN THINE HAND, SET
 MAGISTRATES AND JUDGES, WHICH MAY JUDGE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEYOND THE
 RIVER, ALL SUCH AS KNOW THE LAWS OF THY GOD; AND TEACH YE THEM THAT KNOW THEM
 NOT.
# 26 AND WHOSOEVER WILL NOT DO THE LAW OF THY GOD, AND THE LAW OF THE KING,
 LET JUDGMENT BE EXECUTED SPEEDILY UPON HIM, WHETHER IT BE UNTO DEATH, OR TO
 BANISHMENT, OR TO CONFISCATION OF GOODS, OR TO IMPRISONMENT.
# 27 BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF OUR FATHERS, WHICH HATH PUT SUCH A THING AS
 THIS IN THE KINGS HEART, TO BEAUTIFY THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WHICH IS IN
 JERUSALEM:
# 28 AND HATH EXTENDED MERCY UNTO ME BEFORE THE KING, AND HIS COUNSELLORS,
 AND BEFORE ALL THE KINGS MIGHTY PRINCES. AND I WAS STRENGTHENED AS THE HAND
 OF THE LORD MY GOD WAS UPON ME, AND I GATHERED TOGETHER OUT OF ISRAEL CHIEF
 MEN TO GO UP WITH ME.
= CHAPTER 8 
# 1 THESE ARE NOW THE CHIEF OF THEIR FATHERS, AND THIS IS THE GENEALOGY OF
 THEM THAT WENT UP WITH ME FROM BABYLON, IN THE REIGN OF ARTAXERXES THE KING.
# 2 OF THE SONS OF PHINEHAS; GERSHOM: OF THE SONS OF ITHAMAR; DANIEL: OF THE
 SONS OF DAVID; HATTUSH.
# 3 OF THE SONS OF SHECHANIAH, OF THE SONS OF PHAROSH; ZECHARIAH: AND WITH
 HIM WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY OF THE MALES AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY.
# 4 OF THE SONS OF PAHATHMOAB; ELIHOENAI THE SON OF ZERAHIAH, AND WITH HIM
 TWO HUNDRED MALES.
# 5 OF THE SONS OF SHECHANIAH; THE SON OF JAHAZIEL, AND WITH HIM THREE
 HUNDRED MALES.
# 6 OF THE SONS ALSO OF ADIN; EBED THE SON OF JONATHAN, AND WITH HIM FIFTY
 MALES.
# 7 AND OF THE SONS OF ELAM; JESHAIAH THE SON OF ATHALIAH, AND WITH HIM
 SEVENTY MALES.
# 8 AND OF THE SONS OF SHEPHATIAH; ZEBADIAH THE SON OF MICHAEL, AND WITH HIM
 FOURSCORE MALES.
# 9 OF THE SONS OF JOAB; OBADIAH THE SON OF JEHIEL, AND WITH HIM TWO HUNDRED
 AND EIGHTEEN MALES.
# 10 AND OF THE SONS OF SHELOMITH; THE SON OF JOSIPHIAH, AND WITH HIM AN
 HUNDRED AND THREESCORE MALES.
# 11 AND OF THE SONS OF BEBAI; ZECHARIAH THE SON OF BEBAI, AND WITH HIM
 TWENTY AND EIGHT MALES.
# 12 AND OF THE SONS OF AZGAD; JOHANAN THE SON OF HAKKATAN, AND WITH HIM AN
 HUNDRED AND TEN MALES.
# 13 AND OF THE LAST SONS OF ADONIKAM, WHOSE NAMES ARE THESE, ELIPHELET,
 JEIEL, AND SHEMAIAH, AND WITH THEM THREESCORE MALES.
# 14 OF THE SONS ALSO OF BIGVAI; UTHAI, AND ZABBUD, AND WITH THEM SEVENTY
 MALES.
# 15 AND I GATHERED THEM TOGETHER TO THE RIVER THAT RUNNETH TO AHAVA; AND
 THERE ABODE WE IN TENTS THREE DAYS: AND I VIEWED THE PEOPLE, AND THE PRIESTS,
 AND FOUND THERE NONE OF THE SONS OF LEVI.
# 16 THEN SENT 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
 UNDERSTANDING.
# 17 AND I SENT THEM WITH COMMANDMENT UNTO IDDO THE CHIEF AT THE PLACE
 CASIPHIA, AND I TOLD THEM WHAT THEY SHOULD SAY UNTO IDDO, AND TO HIS BRETHREN
 THE NETHINIMS, AT THE PLACE CASIPHIA, THAT THEY SHOULD BRING UNTO US
 MINISTERS FOR THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD.
# 18 AND BY THE GOOD HAND OF OUR GOD UPON US THEY BROUGHT US A MAN OF
 UNDERSTANDING, OF THE SONS OF MAHLI, THE SON OF LEVI, THE SON OF ISRAEL; AND
 SHEREBIAH, WITH HIS SONS AND HIS BRETHREN, EIGHTEEN;
# 19 AND HASHABIAH, AND WITH HIM JESHAIAH OF THE SONS OF MERARI, HIS BRETHREN
 AND THEIR SONS, TWENTY;
# 20 ALSO OF THE NETHINIMS, WHOM DAVID AND THE PRINCES HAD APPOINTED FOR THE
 SERVICE OF THE LEVITES, TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY NETHINIMS: ALL OF THEM WERE
 EXPRESSED BY NAME.
# 21 THEN I PROCLAIMED A FAST THERE, AT THE RIVER OF AHAVA, THAT WE MIGHT
 AFFLICT OURSELVES BEFORE OUR GOD, TO SEEK OF HIM A RIGHT WAY FOR US, AND FOR
 OUR LITTLE ONES, AND FOR ALL OUR SUBSTANCE.
# 22 FOR I WAS ASHAMED TO REQUIRE OF THE KING A BAND OF SOLDIERS AND HORSEMEN
 TO HELP US AGAINST THE ENEMY IN THE WAY: BECAUSE WE HAD SPOKEN UNTO THE KING,
 SAYING, THE HAND OF OUR GOD IS UPON ALL THEM FOR GOOD THAT SEEK HIM; BUT HIS
 POWER AND HIS WRATH IS AGAINST ALL THEM THAT FORSAKE HIM.
# 23 SO WE FASTED AND BESOUGHT OUR GOD FOR THIS: AND HE WAS INTREATED OF US.
# 24 THEN I SEPARATED TWELVE OF THE CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS, SHEREBIAH,
 HASHABIAH, AND TEN OF THEIR BRETHREN WITH THEM,
# 25 AND WEIGHED UNTO THEM THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD, AND THE VESSELS, EVEN
 THE OFFERING OF THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD, WHICH THE KING, AND HIS COUNSELLORS,
 AND HIS LORDS, AND ALL ISRAEL THERE PRESENT, HAD OFFERED:
# 26 I EVEN WEIGHED UNTO THEIR HAND SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY TALENTS OF SILVER,
 AND SILVER VESSELS AN HUNDRED TALENTS, AND OF GOLD AN HUNDRED TALENTS;
# 27 ALSO TWENTY BASONS OF GOLD, OF A THOUSAND DRAMS; AND TWO VESSELS OF FINE
 COPPER, PRECIOUS AS GOLD.
# 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 FREEWILL OFFERING UNTO THE LORD GOD
 OF YOUR FATHERS.
# 29 WATCH YE, AND KEEP THEM, UNTIL YE WEIGH THEM BEFORE THE CHIEF OF THE
 PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, AND CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF ISRAEL, AT JERUSALEM, IN
 THE CHAMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
# 30 SO TOOK THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES THE WEIGHT OF THE SILVER, AND THE
 GOLD, AND THE VESSELS, TO BRING THEM TO JERUSALEM UNTO THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD.
# 31 THEN WE DEPARTED FROM THE RIVER OF AHAVA ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF THE FIRST
 MONTH, TO GO UNTO JERUSALEM: AND THE HAND OF OUR GOD WAS UPON US, AND HE
 DELIVERED US FROM THE HAND OF THE ENEMY, AND OF SUCH AS LAY IN WAIT BY THE
 WAY.
# 32 AND WE CAME TO JERUSALEM, AND ABODE THERE THREE DAYS.
# 33 NOW ON THE FOURTH DAY WAS THE SILVER AND THE GOLD AND THE VESSELS
 WEIGHED IN THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD BY THE HAND OF MEREMOTH THE SON OF URIAH THE
 PRIEST; AND WITH HIM WAS ELEAZAR THE SON OF PHINEHAS; AND WITH THEM WAS
 JOZABAD THE SON OF JESHUA, AND NOADIAH THE SON OF BINNUI, LEVITES;
# 34 BY NUMBER AND BY WEIGHT OF EVERY ONE: AND ALL THE WEIGHT WAS WRITTEN AT
 THAT TIME.
# 35 ALSO THE CHILDREN OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY, WHICH WERE COME
 OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY, OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO THE GOD OF ISRAEL, TWELVE
 BULLOCKS FOR ALL ISRAEL, NINETY AND SIX RAMS, SEVENTY AND SEVEN LAMBS, TWELVE
 HE GOATS FOR A SIN OFFERING: ALL THIS WAS A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD.
# 36 AND THEY DELIVERED THE KINGS COMMISSIONS UNTO THE KINGS LIEUTENANTS, AND
 TO THE GOVERNORS ON THIS SIDE THE RIVER: AND THEY FURTHERED THE PEOPLE, AND
 THE HOUSE OF GOD.
= CHAPTER 9 
# 1 NOW WHEN THESE THINGS WERE DONE, THE PRINCES CAME TO ME, SAYING, THE
 PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, AND THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, HAVE NOT SEPARATED
 THEMSELVES FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE LANDS, DOING ACCORDING TO THEIR
 ABOMINATIONS, EVEN OF THE CANAANITES, THE HITTITES, THE PERIZZITES, THE
 JEBUSITES, THE AMMONITES, THE MOABITES, THE EGYPTIANS, AND THE AMORITES.
# 2 FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN OF THEIR DAUGHTERS FOR THEMSELVES, AND FOR THEIR
 SONS: SO THAT THE HOLY SEED HAVE MINGLED THEMSELVES WITH THE PEOPLE OF THOSE
 LANDS: YEA, THE HAND OF THE PRINCES AND RULERS HATH BEEN CHIEF IN THIS
 TRESPASS.
# 3 AND WHEN I HEARD THIS THING, I RENT MY GARMENT AND MY MANTLE, AND PLUCKED
 OFF THE HAIR OF MY HEAD AND OF MY BEARD, AND SAT DOWN ASTONIED.
# 4 THEN WERE ASSEMBLED UNTO ME EVERY ONE THAT TREMBLED AT THE WORDS OF THE
 GOD OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED
 AWAY; AND I SAT ASTONIED UNTIL THE EVENING SACRIFICE.
# 5 AND AT THE EVENING SACRIFICE I AROSE UP FROM MY HEAVINESS; AND HAVING
 RENT MY GARMENT AND MY MANTLE, I FELL UPON MY KNEES, AND SPREAD OUT MY HANDS
 UNTO THE LORD MY GOD,
# 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
 GROWN UP UNTO THE HEAVENS.
# 7 SINCE THE DAYS OF OUR FATHERS HAVE WE BEEN IN A GREAT TRESPASS UNTO THIS
 DAY; AND FOR OUR INIQUITIES HAVE WE, OUR KINGS, AND OUR PRIESTS, BEEN
 DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF THE KINGS OF THE LANDS, TO THE SWORD, TO
 CAPTIVITY, AND TO A SPOIL, AND TO CONFUSION OF FACE, AS IT IS THIS DAY.
# 8 AND NOW FOR A LITTLE SPACE GRACE HATH BEEN SHEWED FROM THE LORD OUR GOD,
 TO LEAVE US A REMNANT TO ESCAPE, AND TO GIVE US A NAIL IN HIS HOLY PLACE,
 THAT OUR GOD MAY LIGHTEN OUR EYES, AND GIVE US A LITTLE REVIVING IN OUR
 BONDAGE.
# 9 FOR WE WERE BONDMEN; YET OUR GOD HATH NOT FORSAKEN US IN OUR BONDAGE, BUT
 HATH EXTENDED MERCY UNTO US IN THE SIGHT OF THE KINGS OF PERSIA, TO GIVE US A
 REVIVING, TO SET UP THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD, AND TO REPAIR THE DESOLATIONS
 THEREOF, AND TO GIVE US A WALL IN JUDAH AND IN JERUSALEM.
# 10 AND NOW, O OUR GOD, WHAT SHALL WE SAY AFTER THIS? FOR WE HAVE FORSAKEN
 THY COMMANDMENTS,
# 11 WHICH THOU HAST COMMANDED BY THY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, SAYING, THE
 LAND, UNTO WHICH YE GO TO POSSESS IT, IS AN UNCLEAN LAND WITH THE FILTHINESS
 OF THE PEOPLE OF THE LANDS, WITH THEIR ABOMINATIONS, WHICH HAVE FILLED IT
 FROM ONE END TO ANOTHER WITH THEIR UNCLEANNESS.
# 12 NOW THEREFORE GIVE NOT YOUR DAUGHTERS UNTO THEIR SONS, NEITHER TAKE
 THEIR DAUGHTERS UNTO YOUR SONS, NOR SEEK THEIR PEACE OR THEIR WEALTH FOR
 EVER: THAT YE MAY BE STRONG, AND EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND, AND LEAVE IT FOR
 AN INHERITANCE TO YOUR CHILDREN FOR EVER.
# 13 AND AFTER ALL THAT IS COME UPON US FOR OUR EVIL DEEDS, AND FOR OUR GREAT
 TRESPASS, SEEING THAT THOU OUR GOD HAST PUNISHED US LESS THAN OUR INIQUITIES
 DESERVE, AND HAST GIVEN US SUCH DELIVERANCE AS THIS;
# 14 SHOULD WE AGAIN BREAK THY COMMANDMENTS, AND JOIN IN AFFINITY WITH THE
 PEOPLE OF THESE ABOMINATIONS? WOULDEST NOT THOU BE ANGRY WITH US TILL THOU
 HADST CONSUMED US, SO THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO REMNANT NOR ESCAPING?
# 15 O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THOU ART RIGHTEOUS: FOR WE REMAIN YET ESCAPED, AS
 IT IS THIS DAY: BEHOLD, WE ARE BEFORE THEE IN OUR TRESPASSES: FOR WE CANNOT
 STAND BEFORE THEE BECAUSE OF THIS.
= CHAPTER 10 
# 1 NOW WHEN EZRA HAD PRAYED, AND WHEN HE HAD CONFESSED, WEEPING AND CASTING
 HIMSELF DOWN BEFORE THE HOUSE OF GOD, THERE ASSEMBLED UNTO HIM OUT OF ISRAEL
 A VERY GREAT CONGREGATION OF MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN: FOR THE PEOPLE WEPT
 VERY SORE.
# 2 AND SHECHANIAH THE SON OF JEHIEL, ONE OF THE SONS OF ELAM, ANSWERED AND
 SAID UNTO EZRA, WE HAVE TRESPASSED AGAINST OUR GOD, AND HAVE TAKEN STRANGE
 WIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND: YET NOW THERE IS HOPE IN ISRAEL CONCERNING
 THIS THING.
# 3 NOW THEREFORE LET US MAKE A COVENANT WITH OUR GOD TO PUT AWAY ALL THE
 WIVES, AND SUCH AS ARE BORN OF THEM, ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF MY LORD, AND
 OF THOSE THAT TREMBLE AT THE COMMANDMENT OF OUR GOD; AND LET IT BE DONE
 ACCORDING TO THE LAW.
# 4 ARISE; FOR THIS MATTER BELONGETH UNTO THEE: WE ALSO WILL BE WITH THEE: BE
 OF GOOD COURAGE, AND DO IT.
# 5 THEN AROSE EZRA, AND MADE THE CHIEF PRIESTS, THE LEVITES, AND ALL ISRAEL,
 TO SWEAR THAT THEY SHOULD DO ACCORDING TO THIS WORD. AND THEY SWARE.
# 6 THEN EZRA ROSE UP FROM BEFORE THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND WENT INTO THE CHAMBER
 OF JOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB: AND WHEN HE CAME THITHER, HE DID EAT NO
 BREAD, NOR DRINK WATER: FOR HE MOURNED BECAUSE OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF THEM
 THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY.
# 7 AND THEY MADE PROCLAMATION THROUGHOUT JUDAH AND JERUSALEM UNTO ALL THE
 CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY, THAT THEY SHOULD GATHER THEMSELVES TOGETHER UNTO
 JERUSALEM;
# 8 AND THAT WHOSOEVER WOULD NOT COME WITHIN THREE DAYS, ACCORDING TO THE
 COUNSEL OF THE PRINCES AND THE ELDERS, ALL HIS SUBSTANCE SHOULD BE FORFEITED,
 AND HIMSELF SEPARATED FROM THE CONGREGATION OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED
 AWAY.
# 9 THEN ALL THE MEN OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER UNTO
 JERUSALEM WITHIN THREE DAYS. WAS THE NINTH MONTH, ON THE TWENTIETH DAY OF THE
 MONTH; AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAT IN THE STREET OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, TREMBLING
 BECAUSE OF THIS MATTER, AND FOR THE GREAT RAIN.
# 10 AND EZRA THE PRIEST STOOD UP, AND SAID UNTO THEM, YE HAVE TRANSGRESSED,
 AND HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES, TO INCREASE THE TRESPASS OF ISRAEL.
# 11 NOW THEREFORE MAKE CONFESSION UNTO THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS, AND DO
 HIS PLEASURE: AND SEPARATE YOURSELVES FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, AND FROM
 THE STRANGE WIVES.
# 12 THEN ALL THE CONGREGATION ANSWERED AND SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE, AS THOU
 HAST SAID, SO MUST WE DO.
# 13 BUT THE PEOPLE ARE MANY, AND IT IS A TIME OF MUCH RAIN, AND WE ARE NOT
 ABLE TO STAND WITHOUT, NEITHER IS THIS A WORK OF ONE DAY OR TWO: FOR WE ARE
 MANY THAT HAVE TRANSGRESSED IN THIS THING.
# 14 LET NOW OUR RULERS OF ALL THE CONGREGATION STAND, AND LET ALL THEM WHICH
 HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES IN OUR CITIES COME AT APPOINTED TIMES, AND WITH THEM
 THE ELDERS OF EVERY CITY, AND THE JUDGES THEREOF, UNTIL THE FIERCE WRATH OF
 OUR GOD FOR THIS MATTER BE TURNED FROM US.
# 15 ONLY JONATHAN THE SON OF ASAHEL AND JAHAZIAH THE SON OF TIKVAH WERE
 EMPLOYED ABOUT THIS MATTER: AND MESHULLAM AND SHABBETHAI THE LEVITE HELPED
 THEM.
# 16 AND THE CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY DID SO. AND EZRA THE PRIEST, WITH
 CERTAIN CHIEF OF THE FATHERS, AFTER THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, AND ALL OF
 THEM BY THEIR NAMES, WERE SEPARATED, AND SAT DOWN IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE
 TENTH MONTH TO EXAMINE THE MATTER.
# 17 AND THEY MADE AN END WITH ALL THE MEN THAT HAD TAKEN STRANGE WIVES BY
 THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH.
# 18 AND AMONG THE SONS OF THE PRIESTS THERE WERE FOUND THAT HAD TAKEN
 STRANGE WIVES: NAMELY, OF THE SONS OF JESHUA THE SON OF JOZADAK, AND HIS
 BRETHREN; MAASEIAH, AND ELIEZER, AND JARIB, AND GEDALIAH.
# 19 AND THEY GAVE THEIR HANDS THAT THEY WOULD PUT AWAY THEIR WIVES; AND
 BEING GUILTY, THEY OFFERED A RAM OF THE FLOCK FOR THEIR TRESPASS.
# 20 AND OF THE SONS OF IMMER; HANANI, AND ZEBADIAH.
# 21 AND OF THE SONS OF HARIM; MAASEIAH, AND ELIJAH, AND SHEMAIAH, AND
 JEHIEL, AND UZZIAH.
# 22 AND OF THE SONS OF PASHUR; ELIOENAI, MAASEIAH, ISHMAEL, NETHANEEL,
 JOZABAD, AND ELASAH.
# 23 ALSO OF THE LEVITES; JOZABAD, AND SHIMEI, AND KELAIAH, (THE SAME IS
 KELITA,) PETHAHIAH, JUDAH, AND ELIEZER.
# 24 OF THE SINGERS ALSO; ELIASHIB: AND OF THE PORTERS; SHALLUM, AND TELEM,
 AND URI.
# 25 MOREOVER OF ISRAEL: OF THE SONS OF PAROSH; RAMIAH, AND JEZIAH, AND
 MALCHIAH, AND MIAMIN, AND ELEAZAR, AND MALCHIJAH, AND BENAIAH.
# 26 AND OF THE SONS OF ELAM; MATTANIAH, ZECHARIAH, AND JEHIEL, AND ABDI, AND
 JEREMOTH, AND ELIAH.
# 27 AND OF THE SONS OF ZATTU; ELIOENAI, ELIASHIB, MATTANIAH, AND JEREMOTH,
 AND ZABAD, AND AZIZA.
# 28 OF THE SONS ALSO OF BEBAI; JEHOHANAN, HANANIAH, ZABBAI, AND ATHLAI.
# 29 AND OF THE SONS OF BANI; MESHULLAM, MALLUCH, AND ADAIAH, JASHUB, AND
 SHEAL, AND RAMOTH.
# 30 AND OF THE SONS OF PAHATHMOAB; ADNA, AND CHELAL, BENAIAH, MAASEIAH,
 MATTANIAH, BEZALEEL, AND BINNUI, AND MANASSEH.
# 31 AND OF THE SONS OF HARIM; ELIEZER, ISHIJAH, MALCHIAH, SHEMAIAH, SHIMEON,
# 32 BENJAMIN, MALLUCH, AND SHEMARIAH.
# 33 OF THE SONS OF HASHUM; MATTENAI, MATTATHAH, ZABAD, ELIPHELET, JEREMAI,
 MANASSEH, AND SHIMEI.
# 34 OF THE SONS OF BANI; MAADAI, AMRAM, AND UEL,
# 35 BENAIAH, BEDEIAH, CHELLUH,
# 36 VANIAH, MEREMOTH, ELIASHIB,
# 37 MATTANIAH, MATTENAI, AND JAASAU,
# 38 AND BANI, AND BINNUI, SHIMEI,
# 39 AND SHELEMIAH, AND NATHAN, AND ADAIAH,
# 40 MACHNADEBAI, SHASHAI, SHARAI,
# 41 AZAREEL, AND SHELEMIAH, SHEMARIAH,
# 42 SHALLUM, AMARIAH, AND JOSEPH.
# 43 OF THE SONS OF NEBO; JEIEL, MATTITHIAH, ZABAD, ZEBINA, JADAU, AND JOEL,
 BENAIAH.
# 44 ALL THESE HAD TAKEN STRANGE WIVES: AND SOME OF THEM HAD WIVES BY WHOM
 THEY HAD CHILDREN.