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And these are the heads of the generations and the genealogy of those who came with me from Babylon, to the reign of King Ahasuerus: |
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Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershon; Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; From the sons of David Hattush; |
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Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Parosh Zechariah, and with him on the list of the genealogy one hundred and fifty [men] of the male; |
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Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Elheloyenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred [males]; |
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Of the sons of Shechaniah, the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred [male]; |
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Of the sons of Adin, Ebed, the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males; |
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Of the sons of Elam, Jeshua, the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy [males] of males; |
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Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michaels, and with him eighty males; |
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Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males; |
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Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Joseph, and with him a hundred and sixty [male]; |
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Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight [males] of males; |
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Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Gakkatan, and with him a hundred and ten [male]; |
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Of the sons of Adonikam the last, and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them are sixty [male] men; |
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From the sons of Bigva, Ufa and Zabbud, and with them seventy [male] men. |
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I gathered them by the river that flowed into Agava, and we stood there for three days, and when I examined the people and the priests, I did not find anybody there from the sons of Levi. |
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And I sent to call Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, and Elnathan, and Jarib, and Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zechariah, and Meshullam, the chief ones, and Joariv and Elnathan, scholars; |
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And gave them instructions to the Iddo, the chief in the area of Kasifye, and put them in his mouth, what to say to Iddo and his brothers, the Nethinims in the area of Kasifya, that they bring us ministers for the house of our God. |
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And they brought us to us, for the good hand of our God was over us, the clever man of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and his brethren, eighteen; |
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And Hashabiah, and with him, Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren, and their sons, twenty; |
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And of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes gave him to be servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims; They are all named by name.
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And I proclaimed a post there by the river of Agava to humble ourselves before our God, to ask Him for a safe path for ourselves and for our children and for all our property, |
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Since I was ashamed to ask the tsar for troops and riders to protect us from the enemy on the way, for we, speaking to the king, said: "The hand of our God is beneficent to all who turn to Him [beneficent], but to all those who leave Him are His power And His wrath! |
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So we fasted and asked our God for this, and He heard us.
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And I divided twelve from the chiefs over the priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and with them ten of their brethren; |
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And gave them the weight of silver, and gold, and vessels, all that was sacrificed to the house of our God, which the king had offered, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel that were there. |
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And he gave them into their hands by weight: silver - six hundred and fifty talents, and silver vessels for a hundred talents, gold - a hundred talents; |
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And the bowls of gold are twenty, in a thousand drachmas, and two vessels of the finest shining copper, valued as gold. |
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And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD, and the vessels are holy, and silver and gold are a merciful give to the LORD God of your fathers. |
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Be vigilant and save [this], until you put in weight the rulers over the priests and Levites and the heads of the generations of Israel in Jerusalem, in the vault of the house of the Lord. |
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And the priests and the Levites took in the weighed silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.
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And we departed from the river of Aqaba on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; And the hand of our God was over us, and saved us from the hand of the enemy and from those who lay in wait for us. |
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And we came to Jerusalem, and stayed there for three days. |
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On the fourth day we shed silver, gold and vessels in the house of our God, in the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest, and with him Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noahiah, the son of Winning, the Levites , |
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All by count and weight. And everything weighed down is recorded at the same time. |
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Those who came from captivity brought burnt-offering to the God of Israel for twelve calves from all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs and twelve goats for a sin offering: all this for a burnt offering to the Lord. |
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And they gave the king's orders to the tsarist satraps and the district governors, and they honored the people and the house of God. |
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