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and say to the king, `Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, `is' a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?'

אֲבֹתַי֙ (אֲבֹתַ) 'a.vo.Ta “ancestors”

and say to the king, `If to the king `it be' good, and if thy servant be pleasing before thee, that thou send me unto Judah, unto the city of the graves of my fathers, and I built it.'

אֲבֹתַ֖י (אֲבֹתַ֖) 'a.vo.Ta “ancestors”

And these `are' those coming up from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer -- and they have not been able to declare the house of their fathers, and their seed, whether they `are' of Israel --

אֲבוֹתָם֙ (אֲבוֹתָ) 'a.vo.Ta “ancestors”

And from the extremity of the heads of the fathers they have given to the work; the Tirshatha hath given to the treasure, of gold, drams a thousand, bowls fifty, priests' coats thirty and five hundred.

הָֽאָב֔וֹת (אָב֔וֹת) 'a.Vot “fathers”

And of the heads of the fathers they have given to the treasure of the work, of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand and two hundred.

הָֽאָב֗וֹת (אָב֗וֹת) 'a.Vot “fathers”

And on the second day have been gathered heads of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to act wisely concerning the words of the law.

הָאָב֜וֹת (אָב֜וֹת) 'a.Vot “fathers”

and the seed of Israel are separated from all sons of a stranger, and stand and confess concerning their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers,

אֲבֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ (אֲבֹתֵי) 'a.vo.tei. “ancestors”

and dost see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry hast heard by the sea of Suph,

אֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ (אֲבֹתֵ֖י) 'a.vo.Tei. “ancestors”

`And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

וַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ (אֲבֹתֵ֖י) 'a.vo.Tei. “ancestors”

And their sons Thou hast multiplied as the stars of the heavens, and bringest them in unto the land that Thou hast said to their fathers to go in to possess.

לַאֲבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם (אֲבֹתֵי) 'a.vo.tei. “ancestors”

`And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

וְלַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ (אֲבֹתֵ֖י) 'a.vo.Tei. “ancestors”

and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

וַאֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ (אֲבֹתֵ֔י) 'a.vo.Tei. “ancestors”

`Lo, we -- to-day -- `are' servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we `are' servants on it,

לַאֲבֹתֵ֗ינוּ (אֲבֹתֵ֗י) 'a.vo.Tei. “ancestors”

And the lots we have caused to fall for the offering of wood, `among' the priests, the Levites, and the people, to bring in to the house of our God, by the house of our fathers, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law,

אֲבֹתֵ֛ינוּ (אֲבֹתֵ֛י) 'a.vo.Tei. “ancestors”

and his brethren, heads of fathers, two hundred forty and two; and Amashsai son of Azareel, son of Ahazai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,

לְאָב֔וֹת (אָב֔וֹת) 'a.Vot “fathers”

And in the days of Joiakim have been priests, heads of the fathers; of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

הָאָב֑וֹת (אָב֑וֹת) 'a.Vot “fathers”

The Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, are written, heads of fathers, and of the priests, in the kingdom of Darius the Persian.

אָב֑וֹת 'a.Vot “fathers”

Sons of Levi, heads of the fathers, are written on the book of the Chronicles even till the days of Johanan son of Eliashib;

הָֽאָב֔וֹת (אָב֔וֹת) 'a.Vot “fathers”

Thus did not your fathers do? and our God bringeth in on us all this evil, and on this city, and ye are adding fierceness on Israel, to pollute the sabbath.'

אֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם (אֲבֹ֣תֵי) 'a.Vo.tei. “ancestors”

and he is supporting Hadassah -- she `is' Esther -- daughter of his uncle, for she hath neither father nor mother, and the young woman `is' of fair form, and of good appearance, and at the death of her father and her mother hath Mordecai taken her to him for a daughter.

אָ֣ב 'av “a father”אָבִ֙יהָ֙ (אָבִ֙י) 'a.Vi. “father”

but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'

אָבִ֖יךְ (אָבִ֖י) 'a.Vi “father”

For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ (אֲבוֹתָֽ) 'a.vo.Ta “ancestors”

Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.

מֵאָבִ֣יךָ (אָבִ֣י) 'a.Vi. “father”

Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.

מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃ (אֲבוֹתָֽ) 'a.vo.Ta “ancestors”

To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.

אָ֣בִי (אָ֣בִ) 'A.v “[are] father”