H9002–/וְ–v

You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach you him who doesn't know them.

וְאַ֣נְתְּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְדַיָּנִ֗ין (וְ) ve. “and”וְדִ֧י (וְ) ve. “and”

Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְדָתָא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֶאֱסוּרִֽין׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

וְעָלַ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וְיֽוֹעֲצָ֔יו (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”וַאֲנִ֣י (וַ) va. “and”

Now these are the heads of their fathers' [supplied: houses], and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

וְאֵ֛לֶּה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִתְיַחְשָׂ֑ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.

וְעִמּ֛וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וַחֲמִשִּֽׁים׃ (וַ) va. “and”

Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.

וְעִמּ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

וְעִמּ֕וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.

וּמִבְּנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”וְעִמּ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.

וּמִבְּנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”וְעִמּ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.

וּמִבְּנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”וְעִמּ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

וְעִמּ֕וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁמֹנָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males.

וּמִבְּנֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”וְעִמּ֕וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.

וּמִבְּנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”וְעִמּ֕וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁמֹנָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.

וּמִבְּנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”וְעִמּ֕וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וַעֲשָׂרָ֖ה (וַ) va. “and”

Of the sons of Adonikam, [supplied: who were] the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

וּמִבְּנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”וְאֵ֣לֶּה (וְ) ve. “and”וּֽשְׁמַעְיָ֑ה (וּֽ) u. “and”וְעִמָּהֶ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

וּמִבְּנֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”וְזַכּ֑וּר (וְ) ve. “and”וְעִמּ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

וּבַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים (וּ) u. “and”וּמִבְּנֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

Then 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, who were teachers.

וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֨ן (וּ) u. “and”וּלְיָרִ֜יב (וּ) u. “and”וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֧ן (וּ) u. “and”וּלְנָתָ֛ן (וּ) u. “and”וְלִזְכַרְיָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִמְשֻׁלָּ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְיוֹיָרִ֥יב (וּ) u. “and”וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֖ן (וּ) u. “and”

According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

וְשֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֛ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּבָנָ֥יו (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶחָ֖יו (וְ) ve. “and”

and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִתּ֥וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם (וּ) u. “and”

and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.

וּמִן־ (וּ) u. “and”וְהַשָּׂרִים֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעֶשְׂרִ֑ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

וּלְטַפֵּ֖נוּ (וּ) u. “and”וּלְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.

וּפָרָשִׁ֔ים (וּ) u. “and”וְעֻזּ֣וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַפּ֔וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

וְעִמָּהֶ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיֹעֲצָ֣יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׂרָ֔יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”