Ezra 10 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now when Esdras had prayed and made publick confession, weeping and praying before the house of God, there assembled to him a very great congregation, men, women and youths. Because the people wept and made loud lamentation, ² therefore Sechenias, son of J eel, of the children of Elam, addressing Esdras, said, We have broken covenant with our God and have taken strange wives of the people of the land; but still there is hope in Israel concerning this. ³ Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God, to put away all these wives and those born of them as thou shalt advise. Arise, and cause them to tremble at the commandments of our God, and let what the law requireth be done. ⁴ Arise, for the matter resteth with thee, and we are with thee. Take courage and proceed to action. ⁵ Upon this, Esdras arose and exacted an oath of the chiefs, the priests and Levites, and all Israel, that they would conform to this determination. And when they had taken the oath, ⁶ Esdras went from the house of God to the treasury office of Joanan, son of Elisab. Though he went there, he neither ate bread nor drank water, for he mourned for the transgression of the captivity. ⁷ And they issued a proclamation through Juda and Jerusalem, to all the children of the captivity to assemble at Jerusalem, ⁸ and that whoever did not come within three days, according to the order of the chiefs and the elders, all his substance should be anathematised, and he himself should be excommunicated from the congregation of the captivity. ⁹ Accordingly all the men of Juda and Benjamin, assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was now the ninth month. On the twentieth of this month all the people sat in the street of the house of God, because of their consternation at the decree, and because of the weather. ¹⁰ And Esdras the priest arose, and said to them, You have broken covenant and taken strange wives to add to the transgression of Israel; ¹¹ now therefore, give praise to the Lord God of our fathers, and do what is well-pleasing in his sight, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives. ¹² In reply to which, all the congregation said, We take upon us the performance of this great thing which thou hast spoken; ¹³ but the people are numerous and the weather stormy, so that we cannot stand out of doors, and this is not a work of one or two days; for we have multiplied transgression in this respect. ¹⁴ Let our chiefs, we pray thee, attend; and let all those in our cities who have taken strange wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders of each respective city, and the judges, that they may turn away from us the fierce anger of our God for this matter. ¹⁵ Besides Jonathan son of Asael, and Josias son of Thekoe, there were with me in this business, Mesollam and Sabbathai the Levite who assisted them. ¹⁶ And this was the manner in which the children of the captivity acted. There were set apart Esdras the priest, and head men of families for every house, and all who were named were to return on the first day of the tenth month, to make strict inquiry into this matter. ¹⁷ And when they had finished with all the men who had taken strange wives, having continued the examination to the first day of the first month, ¹⁸ there were found of the sons of the priests, who had taken strange wives; of the sons of Jesus son of Josedek these brethren of his, Maasia and Eliezer and Jarib and Gadalia, ¹⁹ and they gave their hand to put away their wives, and offered a trespass ram of the flock, for their transgression: ²⁰ and of the sons of Emmer, Anani and Zabdia: ²¹ and of the sons of Eram, Masael and Elia and Samaia and Jeel and Ozia: ²² and of the sons of Phasur, Elionai, Maasia and Ismael and Nathaniel and Josabad and Elasa. ²³ And of the Levites, Jozabad and Samu and Kolia, the same is Kolitas, and Phetheia and Juda and Eliezer: ²⁴ and of the musicians, Elisab: and of the keepers of the gates, Solmen and Telmen and Oduth. ²⁵ And of Israel; of the sons of Phoros, Ramia and Azia, and Melchia and Meamin, Eleazar and Asabia and Banaia: ²⁶ and of the sons of Elam; Matthania, and Zacharia and Jaiel and Abdia and Jarimoth and Elia: ²⁷ and of the sons of Zathua, Elionai, Elisub, Matthanai and Armoth and Zabad and Oziza: ²⁸ and of the sons of Babei; Joanan, Anania and Zabu and Thali; ²⁹ and of the sons of Banui; Mosollam, Melluch, Adaias, Jasub and Saluia and Remoth: ³⁰ and of the sons of Phaath Moab, Edne and Chalel and Bania and Maasia, Matthania, Beseleel and Banui and Manasse: ³¹ and of the sons of Eram; Eliezer, Jesia, Melchia, Samaias, Semeon, ³² Benjamin, Baluch, Samaria: ³³ and of the sons of Asem; Metthania, Matthatha, Zadab, Eliphalet, Jerami, Manasse, Semei: ³⁴ and of the sons of Bani; Moodia, Amram, Ouel, ³⁵ Banaia, Badaia, Chelkia, ³⁶ Ovuania, Marimoth, Eliasiph, ³⁷ Matthania, Matthanai: ³⁸ and the sons of Banui, and the sons of Semei had done so, namely, ³⁹ Selemia and Nathan and Adia, ⁴⁰ Machadnabu, Sesei, Sariu, ⁴¹ Ezriel and Selemia and Samaria ⁴² and Sellum, Amaria, Joseph: ⁴³ and of the sons of Nabu; Jael, Matthanias, Zabad, Zebennes, Jadai and Joel and Banaia. ⁴⁴ All these had taken strange wives and had children by them.

⁶ And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the God compassionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, ⁷ keeping kindness and mercy for thousands, taking away transgressions, iniquities and sins, will by no means clear the guilty, when he bringeth the transgressions of fathers on children and children s children to the third and fourth generation.

¹² Take thou heed to thyself that thou make not a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou art going, lest it become a stumbling block to you.

²⁸ And Moses was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant; the ten commandments.

¹⁵ If a person through inadvertence hath forgotten or been unwittingly deficient in any of the holy things of the Lord; when he shall bring for his trespass against the Lord a ram without blemish from the flock, thou must estimate in silver shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, the value of that in respect to which he hath trespassed, ¹⁶ and he shall pay the amount of the deficiency of which he hath been guilty, and shall add thereto a fifth and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the trespass ram and he shall be forgiven.

⁴ when he who hath thus sinned and transgressed hath restored the thing wrongfully taken, or that which he hath got unjustly, or the deposit which was committed to his trust, or the thing lost which he hath found;

⁶ And when for his trespass he shall bring for the Lord a ram from the flock without blemish, thou must fine him to the amount of his trespass.

⁷ They shall not take to wife a harlot, nor a woman who hath been defiled, nor a woman divorced from her husband. Because he is consecrated to the Lord his God,

¹³ He shall take to wife a virgin of his own family. ¹⁴ A widow, or a woman divorced or defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not take. He shall take none to wife, but a virgin of his own tribe; ¹⁵ and he shall not profane his seed among his people. It is I the Lord who hallow him.

⁴⁰ and confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me,

⁴⁰ and confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me, ⁴¹ and I have walked with them in vengeful ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will they bear their sins with humble submission;

⁴¹ and I have walked with them in vengeful ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will they bear their sins with humble submission; ⁴² whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the covenant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the covenant with Abraham, and remember the land.

²⁸ But with respect to every Anathema which a man may devote to the Lord from all that he hath, whether from man or beast, or from field of his possession, it shall not be sold nor redeemed. Every anathema shall be most sacredly devoted to the Lord.

⁴ and the Lord said to Moses, Take all those leaders of the people and make a public example of them, for the Lord, in the face of the sun; so shall the wrath of the Lord be turned away from Israel.

¹⁴ Behold you are risen up in your fathers' stead, a set of sinful men, to augment the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

² When the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, thou shalt smite them; thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make a covenant with them. You shall neither shew them mercy, ³ nor contract marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son.

³ nor contract marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son. ⁴ For she will cause thy son to apostatise from me, and to serve other gods, and the Lord will be provoked to wrath against you, and speedily destroy thee.

¹⁸ Then I made supplication before the Lord, a second time, as I had done before, forty days and forty nights; [I neither ate bread nor drank water]; for your sins which you had committed by doing evil in the sight of the Lord God, to provoke him to wrath.

¹⁴ thou shalt examine, and make inquiry, and search diligently: And behold, if the report is evidently true, and such abomination hath been committed among you;

¹⁷ nor shall any thing of what is devoted to destruction cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his wrath, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion on thee, and multiply thee, in the manner he solemnly promised thy fathers,

⁹ and there come to the priests, the Levites, or to the judge, who 10 ever he may be in those days, and they shall inquire, and declare to thee the sentence of judgment,

¹⁸ And when he is settled in his government, he shall write for himself this repetition of the law in a book, from that which is in the custody of the priests, the Levites. ¹⁹ And he shall keep it by him, and shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these commandments, and execute all these judgments;

¹² to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, and into the curses which the Lord thy God this day stateth to thee,

¹² Let the people be assembled, the men, and the women, and the children, and the proselyte who is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and let them hearken to do all the words of this law.

¹⁶ Thereupon they answered and said to Joshua, All that thou commandest we will do. And wherever thou sendest us we will go. ¹⁷ As we have hearkened to Moses in all things, so will we hearken to thee. Let but the Lord our God be with thee, as he was with Moses, ¹⁸ and whosoever shall disobey thee, and not hearken to all thy commands which thou shalt give him let him be put to death. But be thou strong and courageous.

¹⁹ All the silver, and the gold, and the brass, and the iron, shall be consecrated to the Lord, and carried to the Lord's treasury.

¹⁰ Thereupon the Lord said to Joshua, Arise; why hast thou fallen on thy face? ¹¹ This people hath sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them. They have stolen some of what was devoted, and put it among their stuff; ¹² therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before the face of their enemies. They shall turn back before their enemies, because they are become devoted. I will no more be with you, unless you remove the Anathema from among you. ¹³ Arise, hallow the people, and order them to hallow themselves, against to-morrow. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, The Anathema is among you. You cannot stand before your enemies, until you remove the Anathema from among you. ¹⁴ You shall therefore all assemble to-morrow, by tribes; and whatever tribe the Lord shall point out, you shall present it by communities; and whatever community the Lord shall point out, you shall present it by houses; and whatever house the Lord shall point out, you shall present it man by man; ¹⁵ and whoever is pointed out, he shall be burned with fire and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and committed iniquity in Israel. ¹⁶ Accordingly Joshua arose early in the morning, and brought forward the people by tribes, and the tribe of Juda was pointed out. ¹⁷ And when it was presented by communities, the community of the Zaraites was pointed out; ¹⁸ and when it was presented man by man, Achar son of Zambri, son of Zara, was pointed out. ¹⁹ Whereupon Joshua said to Achar, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession, and tell me what thou hast done, and conceal it not from me.

¹⁹ Whereupon Joshua said to Achar, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession, and tell me what thou hast done, and conceal it not from me. ²⁰ And Achar answered Joshua, and said, I have indeed sinned before the Lord, the God of Israel. Thus and thus have I done. ²¹ I saw, among the spoil, a piece of tissue, and two hundred didrachms of silver, and an ingot of gold, of about fifty didrachms, and I coveted them, and took them, and behold they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them. ²² Then Joshua sent messengers, who ran to the tent, in the camp, and the things were hid in his tent, and the silver under them. ²³ So they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua, and the elders of Israel who laid them before the Lord. ²⁴ Then Joshua took Achar, son of Zara, and led him up to the valley of Achor, with his sons, and his daughters, and his cattle, and his asses, and all his flocks, and his tent, and all his goods, and all the people accompanied him. And when he had led them up to Emek-Achor, ²⁵ Joshua said to Achar, Why hast thou destroyed us? The Lord destroy thee, as at this day! Then all Israel stoned him with stones. ²⁶ And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his anger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.

²⁶ And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his anger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.

⁶ they came to Joshua, to the camp of Israel, at Galgala, and said to Joshua and Israel, We are come from a far distant land, now therefore make a covenant with us.

¹⁷ Is the sin of Phogor a small matter to you? Because we have not been cleansed from it even to this day, though there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord; ¹⁸ are you therefore now turned away from the Lord? For the consequence will be, if you this day apostatize from the Lord, there will be to-morrow wrath against all Israel.

¹² For if you turn away, and join yourselves with those nations which are left with you, and intermarry with them, and be mixed with them, and they with you; ¹³ be assured that the Lord will no more drive out those nations from before you; but they shall be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until you be destroyed from this good land, which the Lord your God hath given you.

⁴ And when the messenger of the Lord had spoken these words to all the children of Israel, the people wept aloud. ⁵ So they called the name of that place, Wailing, and there they sacrificed to the Lord.

⁵ Then the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who came not up before the Lord at the general assembly? For they had denounced the great curse against those who came not up before the Lord to Massepha, saying, Let him assuredly be put to death.

²² Now Eli was very old; and when he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel, ²³ he said to them, Why do you act in the manner I hear from the mouth of all the people of the Lord? ²⁴ Do not so my sons; for the reports which I hear are not good, that the people cannot serve God.

⁷ and taking two heifers, he cut them in pieces, and sent them to all the borders of Israel, by the hands of messengers, saying, So shall be done to every man's cattle who goeth not out after Saul and after Samuel. And a dread of the Lord came on all the people of Israel, and they came out as one man.

¹⁷ Is it not now wheat harvest? I will invoke the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain, that you may know, and see that the evil is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ Then Samuel invoked the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that very day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

³⁰ Thou indeed wilt hearken to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel. Whatever they may address towards this place thou indeed wilt hearken to it in the place of thy habitation in heaven, and wilt do and be merciful.

³ and said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication which thou hast made before me, and have done for thee according to all thy prayer. I have hallowed this house which thou hast built to put my name there for ever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there continually.

¹⁵ And going thence he met Jonadab son of Rechab, coming to meet him. And when he had saluted him, Jehu said to him, Is thy heart right with my heart, as my heart is with thine? And when Jonadab said, It is: Jehu said to him. Give me thy hand. So he gave him his hand. Then he caused him to come up to him into the chariot,

¹⁷ Then Jodae made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people. And he made a covenant also between the king and the people.

¹⁴ and Azarias begot Saraias; and Saraias begot Josadak; ¹⁵ and Josadak went into captivity with Juda and Jerusalem by the hand of Nabuchodonosar.

¹² and Adaia, son of Iraam, son of Phaschor, son of Melchia; and Maasia, son of Adiel, son of Ezira, son of Mosollam, son of Maselmoth, son of Emmer,

¹⁶ of gold and silver and brass and iron, an innumerable number. Up therefore; and fall to work. And the Lord be with thee.

¹⁹ Now therefore apply your hearts, and your souls to seek the Lord your God and arise and build a sanctuary for your God, that you may carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house to be built for the name of the Lord.

⁸ the third for Charib; the fourth for Seorim;

¹⁴ the fifteenth for Belga; the sixteenth for Emmer;

¹⁰ Observe now, since the Lord hath chosen thee to build a house for him for a sanctuary, be strong and do it.

²¹ And these are the courses of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of the house of the Lord. And there will be with thee for the work, every artist skilled in every art, and all the chiefs and all the people to execute all thy commands.

²⁴ The chiefs, and the men in authority, and all the sons of king David his father were subject to him,

⁵ And when he appointed the judges in all the fortified cities of Juda, city by city, ⁶ he said to the judges, Take heed what you do. For you judge not for man, but for the Lord, and with you are the words of the judgment. ⁷ Now therefore let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Keep watch and do your duty; for with the Lord our God there is no injustice, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

⁹ If evils come upon us, the sword, judgment, pestilence or famine, we will stand before this house and before thee; for thy name is on this house; and cry to thee, because of the affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.

¹³ And while all the chiefs of Juda were standing before the Lord, with their wives and children;

¹³ and said to them, You shall not bring these captives here to us, for that would be to bring your guilt on us. Because you have sinned against the Lord, do you mean to lay it on us, to add to our sins and to heighten our folly, because our sins are many, and the fervent anger of the Lord is hanging over Israel?

¹⁰ In this situation of affairs, I have it now at heart to enter into a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that he may turn away his fierce anger from us.

⁵ therefore they determined to make proclamation, throughout all Israel, from Bersabee to Dan, that they might come and keep the passover, to the Lord God of Israel, at Jerusalem, because a multitude had not done it according to the scripture.

⁸ Now therefore be not stubborn as your fathers were. Give glory to the Lord God, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath hallowed forever, and serve the Lord your God, and he will turn away his fierce indignation from you.

¹² Now to these the hand of the Lord had given one heart to come and do what the king and the chiefs had commanded by a word of the Lord.

²¹ Go and inquire of the Lord for me, and for all the remnant of Israel and Juda, touching the words of this book which is found; for great must be the wrath of the Lord, which is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to these words of the Lord, to do according to all that are written in this book.

²⁷ as thy heart was affected, and thou didst humble thyself before me when thou heardst these words of mine against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof; As thou hast humbled thyself before me, and hast rent thy garments and wept before me; I have heard saith the Lord.

³¹ Then the king stood on the pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord to walk before the Lord and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with his whole heart, and his whole soul, so as to perform all the terms of the covenant, written in that book; ³² and he caused all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And when the inhabitants of Jerusalem, had made a covenant in the house of the Lord God of their fathers,

¹ In the first year of Cyrus, king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he caused proclamation to be made by word of mouth, and in writing, throughout all his kingdom, saying,

² The number of the people of Israel who came with Zorobabel, Jesus, Nehemias, Saraias, Reelias, Mordecai, Balasan, Masphar, Baguai, Beum, Baana, the head men. ³ The children of Phares, two thousand one hundred and seventy two.

⁶ The children of Phaath Moab, descendants of Jesus and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve. ⁷ The children of Ailam, one thousand two hundred and fifty four. ⁸ The children of Zatthua, nine hundred and forty five.

¹⁰ The children of Banni, six hundred and forty two. ¹¹ The children of Babai, six hundred and twenty three.

¹⁹ The children of Asum, two hundred and twenty three.

²⁹ The children of Nabu, fifty two.

³¹ The children of Elamar, a thousand two hundred and fifty four. ³² The children of Elam, three hundred and twenty.

³⁷ The children of Emmer, a thousand and fifty two: ³⁸ The children of Phassur, a thousand two hundred and forty seven: ³⁹ The children of Erem, a thousand and seven.

² And Jesus the son of Josedek with his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel with his brethren, arose and rebuilt the altar of the God of Israel, that they might offer thereon whole burnt offerings according to what is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

² then arose Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus son of Josedek, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God helping them.

⁸ and they arrived at Jerusalem in the fifth month of the said seventh year of the king. ⁹ For on the first day of the first month he settled his journey up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month they arrived at Jerusalem. For the good hand of his God was upon him,

²³ Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done. Take heed that no one offer any insult to the house of the God of heaven, lest there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons. ²⁴ Moreover, in respect to all the priests and the Levites, the musicians, the keepers of the gates, the Nathimins, and those employed in the service of the house of God, this hath been notified to you, Take no toll of them. Thou shalt have no authority to exercise dominion over them. ²⁵ And thou Esdras! as the wisdom of God is in thy hand, appoint scribes and judges, that they may administer justice to all the people beyond the river, to all such as know the law of thy God, and to such as know it not you shall make it known. ²⁶ And whoever will not readily perform the law of God, and the law of the king, upon him let judgment be passed, whether it be to death or to correction, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment."

²⁶ And whoever will not readily perform the law of God, and the law of the king, upon him let judgment be passed, whether it be to death or to correction, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." ²⁷ Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers who thus put it in the king's heart to glorify the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, ²⁸ and who gave me favour in the eyes of the king and his counsellors, and of all the officers of the king who were high in office. As for me, I strengthened myself, as the good hand of God was upon me, and assembled from among Israel chiefs to go up with me.

⁴ and of the children of Phaath-moab, Eliana, son of Saraia, and with him two hundred males:

⁷ and of the children of Elam, Isais, son of Athelia, and with him seventy males:

¹¹ and of the children of Babi, Zacharias son of Babi, and with him twenty eight males:

³³ we, on the fourth day, delivered the silver and gold and vessels, in the house of our God, into the hand of Merimoth, son of Ouria the priest, when there was with him, Eleazar son of Phineas, and with them Jozabad, son of Jesus, and Noadia, son of Banaia, the Levites,

¹ When these things were done, the chiefs came to me and said, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the. neighbouring tribes. In their abominations, the Ethites, the Pherezites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the Moserites, and the Amorites, are the same with the Chananites. ² For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves, and their sons; and the holy seed is mingled with the tribes of the neighbouring regions. And the hand of the chiefs is principally concerned in this transgression.

⁴ And there assembled to me every one who, in the defection of the captivity, continued to follow the word of the God of Israel: but as for me, I continued sitting disconsolate, till the evening sacrifice.

⁶ I said: Lord, I blush, and am ashamed to lift up, O my God, my face to thee; because our iniquities are multiplied over our head, and our transgressions are heaped up to heaven.

¹ Now when Esdras had prayed and made publick confession, weeping and praying before the house of God, there assembled to him a very great congregation, men, women and youths. Because the people wept and made loud lamentation, ² therefore Sechenias, son of J eel, of the children of Elam, addressing Esdras, said, We have broken covenant with our God and have taken strange wives of the people of the land; but still there is hope in Israel concerning this. ³ Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God, to put away all these wives and those born of them as thou shalt advise. Arise, and cause them to tremble at the commandments of our God, and let what the law requireth be done.

³ Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God, to put away all these wives and those born of them as thou shalt advise. Arise, and cause them to tremble at the commandments of our God, and let what the law requireth be done. ⁴ Arise, for the matter resteth with thee, and we are with thee. Take courage and proceed to action.

¹⁸ there were found of the sons of the priests, who had taken strange wives; of the sons of Jesus son of Josedek these brethren of his, Maasia and Eliezer and Jarib and Gadalia, ¹⁹ and they gave their hand to put away their wives, and offered a trespass ram of the flock, for their transgression: ²⁰ and of the sons of Emmer, Anani and Zabdia: ²¹ and of the sons of Eram, Masael and Elia and Samaia and Jeel and Ozia: ²² and of the sons of Phasur, Elionai, Maasia and Ismael and Nathaniel and Josabad and Elasa. ²³ And of the Levites, Jozabad and Samu and Kolia, the same is Kolitas, and Phetheia and Juda and Eliezer: ²⁴ and of the musicians, Elisab: and of the keepers of the gates, Solmen and Telmen and Oduth. ²⁵ And of Israel; of the sons of Phoros, Ramia and Azia, and Melchia and Meamin, Eleazar and Asabia and Banaia: ²⁶ and of the sons of Elam; Matthania, and Zacharia and Jaiel and Abdia and Jarimoth and Elia:

²⁶ and of the sons of Elam; Matthania, and Zacharia and Jaiel and Abdia and Jarimoth and Elia: ²⁷ and of the sons of Zathua, Elionai, Elisub, Matthanai and Armoth and Zabad and Oziza: ²⁸ and of the sons of Babei; Joanan, Anania and Zabu and Thali; ²⁹ and of the sons of Banui; Mosollam, Melluch, Adaias, Jasub and Saluia and Remoth: ³⁰ and of the sons of Phaath Moab, Edne and Chalel and Bania and Maasia, Matthania, Beseleel and Banui and Manasse: ³¹ and of the sons of Eram; Eliezer, Jesia, Melchia, Samaias, Semeon, ³² Benjamin, Baluch, Samaria: ³³ and of the sons of Asem; Metthania, Matthatha, Zadab, Eliphalet, Jerami, Manasse, Semei: ³⁴ and of the sons of Bani; Moodia, Amram, Ouel, ³⁵ Banaia, Badaia, Chelkia, ³⁶ Ovuania, Marimoth, Eliasiph, ³⁷ Matthania, Matthanai: ³⁸ and the sons of Banui, and the sons of Semei had done so, namely, ³⁹ Selemia and Nathan and Adia, ⁴⁰ Machadnabu, Sesei, Sariu, ⁴¹ Ezriel and Selemia and Samaria ⁴² and Sellum, Amaria, Joseph: ⁴³ and of the sons of Nabu; Jael, Matthanias, Zabad, Zebennes, Jadai and Joel and Banaia. ⁴⁴ All these had taken strange wives and had children by them.

⁴⁴ All these had taken strange wives and had children by them.

¹ So Eliasub the high priest arose with his brethren the priests, and having built the sheep gate, they consecrated it and set up the gates thereof. They consecrated as far as the tower of the hundred, and to the tower of Anameel,

⁶ And Joida son of Phasek and Mesulam son of Basodia repaired the gate Jasanai. They covered it and set up the doors thereof, and the locks and the bars thereof.

¹¹ And the next who fortified was Melchias son of Eram, then Asub son of Phaath-moab; and they continued on to the tower of Thanurim.

²⁰ and after him Barach son of Zabu, repaired the other curtain from the corner to the door of Betheliasub which belonged to the chief priest;

²⁹ and after them Sadduk son of Emmer repaired over against his house; and after him repaired Samaia, son of Sechenia, the keeper of the eastern gate;

¹² Thereupon they said, We will restore, and require nothing of them. We will do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests and having caused them to swear that they would do according to this decree,

⁸ The children of Pharos, two thousand a hundred and seventy two;

¹¹ The children of Phaath-moab, descendants of Jesu and Joab, two thousand six hundred and eighteen; ¹² The children of Ailam, a thousand two hundred and fifty four; ¹³ The children of Zathuia, eight hundred and forty five;

¹⁵ The children of Banui, six hundred and forty eight; ¹⁶ The children of Bebi, six hundred and twenty eight;

²² The children of Esam, three hundred and twenty eight;

³³ The men of Nabia, a hundred and fifty two. ³⁴ The men of Elamaar, a thousand two hundred and fifty two; ³⁵ The children of Eram, three hundred and twenty;

⁴⁰ The children of Emmer, a thousand and fifty two; ⁴¹ The children of Phaseur, a thousand two hundred and forty seven; ⁴² The children of Eram, a thousand and seventeen;

⁴ Now Esdras the scribe stood on a wooden scaffold, and there stood near him Matthathias and Samaias and Ananias and Ourias and Chelkia and Maasia on his right; and on his left, Phadaias and Misael and Melchias and Asom and Asabadma, and Zacharias and Mesollom.

⁷ And Jesus and Banaias and Sarabias proceeded to instruct the people in the law, and the people kept their station.

⁹ Then spake Nehemias; when Esdras the priest and scribe and the Levites and they who instructed the people, had said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord our God, mourn not nor weep [for all the people wept when they heard the words of the law]

¹⁴ they found it written in the law which the Lord had given in charge to Moses, That the Israelites should dwell in booths at the festival in the seventh month,

³⁸ In a due sense, therefore, of all these things we pledge our faith, we by writing, and our chiefs, our Levites, and our priests by sealing;

⁴ Attics, Sebani, Maluch,

¹⁰ and his brethren, Sabania, Oduia, Kalitan, Phelia, Anan,

²⁰ Megaphes, Mesullam, Ezir,

²⁸ and the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the keepers of the gates, the musicians, the Nathinims, and every one who came from among the people of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding, ²⁹ were urgent with their brethren, and bound themselves with an oath, entering into a curse and an oath;] that we will walk in the law of God, which was given by the ministry of Moses the servant of God, to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord and his judgments and his statutes;

²⁹ were urgent with their brethren, and bound themselves with an oath, entering into a curse and an oath;] that we will walk in the law of God, which was given by the ministry of Moses the servant of God, to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord and his judgments and his statutes; ³⁰ and that we will not give our daughters to the people of the land; nor will we take their daughters for our sons, ³¹ and that with regard to the people of the country who bring wares or any thing to sell on the sabbath day, we will not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day: and that every seventh year we will remit every demand of what kind soever: ³² and that we will confirm the commands upon us to give every year a third of a didrachm for the service of the house of our God, ³³ for the presence loaves and the sacrifice of the daily oblation and for the whole burnt offering of every day, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the festivals and for the holy things, namely, the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for the works of the house of our God: ³⁴ and that we the priests and the Levites and the people who have cast lots touching the bringing of wood, will bring it for the house of our God, for the house of our families, at the set times and seasons yearly, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law: ³⁵ and that we will bring the first fruits of our land, and the first fruits of every fruit tree yearly to the house of the Lord, and do, ³⁶ with regard to the first born of our sons and our cattle, as it is written in the law; that we will bring the firstlings of our herds and our flocks to the house of our God for the priests, who minister in the house of our God: ³⁷ and that we will bring the dedications of our corn including the fruit of trees, and of wine and oil to the stores of the house of God for the priests; and the tythe of our land for the Levites. But the Levites themselves shall receive the tythes in all the cities of our bondage; ³⁸ and the priest, the son of Aaron, shall share with the Levite in the Levite's tythe; and the Levites shall carry the tythe of their tythe to the house of our God; to the store houses for the house of our God; ³⁹ because the children of Israel including the children of Levi are to carry the dedications of their corn, their wine and their oil to these treasuries, and the holy vessels and the priests and the ministering servants and the keepers of the gates and the musicians are to be there, therefore we will not forsake the house of our God."

¹⁶ [Omitted]

¹⁰ And Jesus begot Joakim and Joakim begot Eliasib and Eliasib begot Jodae,

²² And in the days of Eliasib, these Levites, Joada and Joa, and Joanan and Idua were enrolled chiefs of the families, and they were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.

³³ Namely, Azarias and Esdras, and Mesolam

¹ On reading that day in the book of Moses in the audience of the people, it was found written therein, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not enter into the congregation of God forever; ² because they did not meet the Israelites with bread and water; but hired Balaam against them to curse them; but our God turned the curse into a blessing. ³ And when they heard the law, they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

³ And when they heard the law, they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

⁵ he had fitted up for himself a large store house in which they formerly stored up the sacrifice and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tythe of the corn, and the wine and the oil, the allotment of the Levites and the musicians, and the keepers of the gates, and the oblations which belonged to the priest.

²³ In those days also I saw the Jews who had married wives of Azotus, of Ammon, and of Moab,

²⁵ and I .quarrelled with them, and reproached them, and smote some men among them, and caused some of them to be shaved, and adjured them by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take any of their daughters for your sons.

²⁷ Let us not therefore hear of your committing all this iniquity, breaking covenant with our God, and marrying strange women. ²⁸ And one of the sons of Joada the son of Elisub the high priest, being the son in law of Sanaballat the Ouranite, I drove him from me.

¹⁶ And Esther went in to Artaxerxes the king, in the twelfth month which is the month Adar in the seventh year of his reign.

¹² nor transgress in my bosom: indeed I have hid his words.

¹⁶ I was a father to those in distress; and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin and did not conceal mine iniquity. I said, Against myself I will confess mine iniquity to the Lord, thereupon thou didst forgive the wickedness of my heart.

³⁷ and their heart was not right with him, nor were they stedfast in his covenant. ³⁸ But he being merciful forgave their sins, and would not utterly destroy them. Yea, many a time did he turn away his wrath, and would not suffer all his wrath to blaze forth;

⁵⁷ but turned back and broke covenant like their fathers. They turned aside like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁹ I revolved thy ways in my mind, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with the dread of thee; for I am terrified at thy judgments.

¹³⁶ Mine eyes poured down streams of water, because I did not keep thy law.

⁵ for by attending to them a wise man will become wiser; and a man of understanding will possess a ride of government

¹⁶ and estrange thee from a just determination.

³ for honey droppeth from the lips of a harlot, which for a while pleaseth thy palate;

²⁰ Be not devoted to a strange woman, nor embraced in the arms of one not thine own.

⁹ Give a wise man a hint and he will be wiser; an intimation to a righteous man and he will proceed to take it.

²³ A wicked man will not hearken to it, nor can he say any thing in season, or for the publick good.

¹¹ It is an apple of gold in a sardine bracelet, thus to speak a word. ¹² A precious sardius is bound to an ear-ring of gold; and a word of wisdom to an obedient ear.

⁹ With myrrh and wine and perfumes the heart is cheered: but with misfortunes the spirit is broken.

¹³ He who covereth his wickedness shall not prosper; but he who confesseth and forsaketh will be beloved.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might; since there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge nor wisdom in the mansion of the dead to which thou must go.

¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds; ¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; deliver him who is injured; administer justice to the orphan, and plead the cause of the widow: ¹⁸ then come: [let our controversy be brought to issue, saith the Lord] and though your sins be as a purple stain; I will make you white as snow; though they be as a stain of scarlet; I will make you white as wool.

²⁰ For he hath given a law for assistance; that they may not speak like such an oracle as this, which is not worth the giving of gifts for it.

¹ And on that day thou wilt say, I bless thee, Lord; because, though thou wast angry with me, thou hast turned away thy wrath and pitied me.

¹² Though the Lord of hosts, on that day, called for mourning, and lamentation, and for shaving of hair and girding with sackcloth,

³ Be strong ye hands which are feeble, and ye knees which are without strength. ⁴ Take comfort ye who are faint hearted; take courage, be not terrified; behold our God retributeth judgment; he will indeed make retribution; he himself will come and save us.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord; and when you find him call upon him. And when he draweth near to you; ⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

⁴ For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, whoever of them shall keep my sabbaths, and chuse the things in which I delight and adhere to my covenant;

² For all these things my hand hath made: and all these things are mine saith the Lord. Upon whom therefore will I look down, but upon him only who is humble and quiet, and who trembleth at my words?

¹² go and proclaim these words to the north and thou shalt say, Return to me, house of Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not set my face against you. For I am merciful, saith the Lord and will not be angry with you forever. ¹³ Nevertheless acknowledge thine iniquity; that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and opened thy ways for strangers under every shady tree; and hast not hearkened to my voice, saith the Lord.

¹³ Nevertheless acknowledge thine iniquity; that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and opened thy ways for strangers under every shady tree; and hast not hearkened to my voice, saith the Lord.

¹ O that my head were water! and mine eyes a fountain of tears! That I might weep day and night for this people of mine; for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁰ They must be taken up and carried; for they cannot walk. Fear them not for they can do you no harm, and there is no good in them.

¹³ and the multitude of waters in heaven: when he brought up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he made the lightning for rain, and brought light forth from his treasuries.

¹⁷ But if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the flock of the Lord is destroyed.

¹¹ [J] Because priest and prophet are polluted, and in my house I have seen their wickedness;

¹⁴ but among the prophets of Jerusalem I saw horrible things; some committing adultery, and some walking in lies, and some strengthening the hands of the multitude, that none might turn from his evil way. To me they are all become like Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof like Gomorra:

⁶ Egypt laid to a hand; Assyria, till they were satisfied.

⁴ and said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead of those men who are sighing and sorrowing for all the transgressions which are committed among them;

²² Moreover they shall not take to wife a widow, nor one who hath been divorced; but only a virgin of the race of Israel. However, if there be a widow of a priest, they may take her.

³ Therefore I turned my face to the Lord my God, to seek a prayer and supplication by fasting and sackcloth.

³ Therefore I turned my face to the Lord my God, to seek a prayer and supplication by fasting and sackcloth. ⁴ And I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession and said, Lord, the God great and marvellous, who keepest thy covenant and thy mercy for them who love thee and keep thy commandments! We have sinned;

²⁰ Now whilst I was still speaking and praying and confessing mine own sins and the sins of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the mount of the sanctuary;

² take words with you and return to the Lord your God, and, that you may not receive the punishment of iniquity but may receive good things, say to him, "We will render to thee the fruit of our lips.

¹⁶ Assemble the people; sanctify the congregation; choose elders. Bring together infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber and the bride from her wardrobe. ¹⁷ At the foot of the altar, let the priests who minister to the Lord, weep, and say, Spare, Lord, thy people; and give not up thy heritage to reproach; for the nations to rule over them. That they may not say among the nations, "Where is their God?" ¹⁸ the Lord was indeed jealous for his land and spared his people.

¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, a word of the Lord came by the ministry of Haggai the prophet, saying, "Say to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel of the tribe of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedek the high priest, these words:

¹ Then the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan stood at his right hand to oppose him.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born.

⁸ but as for you, you have turned aside out of the way and weakened many by law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord Almighty, ⁹ therefore I have made you contemptible and outcasts among all the nations, because you did not keep my ways, but in law have had respect to persons.

¹³ Enter in at the strait gate. Because the gate is wide and the way broad which leadeth to destruction, therefore many there are who go in through it: ¹⁴ because the gate is strait and the way narrow, which leadeth to life, therefore there are few who find it.

¹⁷ And if he disregard them, tell the congregation; and if he disregard the congregation, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.

³² As for you then, fill up the measure of your fathers.

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. Then the chief priest addressing him, said, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the son of God.

³⁴ As when a man was going to travel, on leaving his family and assigning to his servants their charge, even to even' one his work, he commanded the porter to watch;

⁴¹ And as he drew near he viewed the city and wept over it,

³¹ Now in the mean while his disciples entreated him, saying, Rabbi, eat. ³² But he said to them; I have meat to eat which you do not know. ³³ His disciples therefore said to one another, Hath any one brought him food? ³⁴ Jesus saith to them, It is my food to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

⁵¹ Doth our law condemn the man without hearing him, and knowing what he hath done?

²² This his parents said, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had now agreed that if any one acknowledged Jesus to be the Christ, he should be excommunicated.

³⁴ They answered and said to him, Thou wast altogether born in sin, and dost thou teach us? And they excommunicated him.

² They will excommunicate you. Indeed a time is coming, when whosoever killeth you will think he doth an act of religious worship to God.

³⁰ Thereupon Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting till this hour, and at the ninth hour praying in my house. And lo! a man stood before me in splendid attire,

⁵ But when these days were ended, we set out on our departure, they, with women and children, all attending us out of the city, and kneeling down on the sea shore, we prayed;

² that I have great grief and incessant sorrow in my heart

² and be not conformed to this world; but transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may know experimentally what the will of God is, which is good and acceptable and perfect.

¹² Now we have not received the spirit of this world, but the spirit which is from God, that we may know the things which God hath freely granted to us; ¹³ which things we indeed speak, not in set words of human wisdom, but in the dictated words of a holy spirit, explaining spiritual things by spiritual words. ¹⁴ Now an animal man receiveth not those dictates of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, because they are to be spiritually examined;

¹³ and God will pass sentence on those without. Therefore remove the wicked person from among yourselves.

¹² And to the rest I say, not the Lord; if any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is well satisfied to live with him, let him not divorce her: ¹³ and if any woman hath an unbelieving husband, and he is well satisfied to live with her, let her not divorce him.

¹⁷ therefore come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you,

⁹ even James, and Cephas, and John, those eminent pillars, knowing the favour granted to me, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should be for the nations, and they for the circumcision,

¹⁰ with all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthy of the Lord, to all well pleasing. By every good work we bear fruit, and grow up for the acknowledgment of God;

¹¹ Women in like manner should be grave, not addicted to slander, sober, faithful in all things.

²⁴ and let us observe one another, in order to excite love and good works,

¹² Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the knees which are feeble, ¹³ and make straight tracks with your feet, that that which is lame may not be sprained, but rather healed.

²¹ perfect you in every good work, that you may do his will, working in you what is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ: to whom be the glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

⁹ but if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are by that law convicted as transgressors.

⁷ But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. ⁸ If we say that we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

⁸ If we say that we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a false speaker, and his word is not in us.