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)
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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 8
Tanakh 36 verses
- 1 Now these are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from , in the reign of Artaxerxes the .
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Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, ; of the sons of , Hattush.
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Of the sons of Shecaniah: of the sons of Parosh, ; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.
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Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
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- 5 Of the sons of Shechaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
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And of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of ; and with him fifty males.
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And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
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And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him fourscore males.
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Of the sons of Joab, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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- 10 And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and threescore males.
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And of the sons of Bebai, the son of Bebai; and with him twenty and eight males.
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And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten males.
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And of the sons of Adonikam, that were the last; and these are their names, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah; and with them threescore males.
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And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur; and with him seventy males.
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And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there we encamped three days; and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of .
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- 16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for , and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, teachers.
- 17 And I gave them unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto Iddo [and] his brother, who were set over the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our .
- 18 And according to the good hand of our upon us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of , the son of ; and Sherebiah, with 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 and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim; all of them were mentioned by .
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Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our , to seek of Him a straight way, for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
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2 Chronicles 20:3 1 Samuel 7:6 Leviticus 16:29 Leviticus 23:29 Psalm 5:8 Joel 1:14 Ezra 8:15 Numbers 14:31 Isaiah 35:8 Psalm 8:2 Isaiah 42:16 Psalm 143:8-10 Leviticus 16:31 Jeremiah 10:23 Jeremiah 31:8-9 Jonah 3:5 Proverbs 3:6 Ezra 8:31 Judges 20:26 Isaiah 58:3 Isaiah 49:10 Isaiah 30:21 Acts 2:39 Psalm 107:2-8 Numbers 14:3 Jeremiah 50:4-5 Joel 2:12-18 Isaiah 58:5 Mark 10:13-16 - 22 For I was ashamed to ask of the a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way; because we had spoken unto the , saying: ‘The hand of our is upon all them that seek Him, for good; but His power and His wrath is against all them that forsake Him.’
- 23 So we fasted and besought our for this; and He was entreated of us.
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Then I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, besides Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
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and weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the for the house of our , which the , and his counsellors, and his princes, and all there present, had offered;
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I even weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents; of gold a hundred talents;
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and twenty bowels of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
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- 28 And I said unto them: ‘Ye are unto , and the vessels are ; and the silver and the gold are a freewill- unto , the of your fathers.
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Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ houses of , at , in the chambers of the house of .’
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So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to unto the house of our .
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Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto ; and the hand of our was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and lier-in-wait by the way.
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And we came to , and abode there three days.
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- 33 And on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the ; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites;
- 34 the whole by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time.
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The children of the captivity, that were come out of exile, offered burnt-offerings unto the of , twelve bullocks for all , ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-; all this was a burnt- unto .
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And they delivered the king’s commissions unto the king’s satraps, and to the governors beyond the River; and they furthered the people and the house of .
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