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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1These 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Of 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Also 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And 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 counsellers, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered: |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Watch 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30So 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Then 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Now 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Also 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God. |
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