These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezra 1
Tanakh 11 verses
- 1 NOW IN the first year of Cyrus of Persia, that the of by the mouth of might be accomplished, stirred up the of Cyrus of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his , and put it also in writing, saying:
- 2 Thus saith Cyrus of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hath , the of , given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in , which is in .
- 3 Whosoever there is among you of all His people—his be with him—let him go up to , which is in , and build the house of , the of , He is the who is in .
- 4 And whosoever is left, 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- for the house of which is in .’
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Then rose up the heads of fathers’ houses of and , and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose had stirred to go up to build the house of which is in .
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And all they that were round 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.
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- 7 Also Cyrus the brought forth the vessels of the house of , which had brought forth out of , and had put them in the house of his Elohims;
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even those did Cyrus of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of .
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- 9 And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty knives;
- 10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
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All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from unto .
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