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The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth [supplied: day] of the first month.

בְּאַרְבָּעָ֥ה (בְּ) be. “on”

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

בְּשִׂמְחָ֑ה (בְּ) be. “with”בִּמְלֶ֥אכֶת (בִּ) bi “in”

Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

בְּמַלְכ֖וּת (בְּ) be. “in”

this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yahweh his God on him.

בְּתוֹרַ֣ת (בְּ) be. “in”

There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

בִּשְׁנַת־ (בִּ) bi “in”

He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ (בַּ) ba. “in the”

For on the first [supplied: day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first [supplied: day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

בְּאֶחָד֙ (בְּ) be. “on”וּבְאֶחָ֞ד (בְ) ve. “on”

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (בְּ) be. “in”

I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are minded of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.

בְּמַלְכוּתִי֩ (בְּ) be. “in”

Because you are sent of the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

בְּדָ֥ת (בְּ) be. “in”בִידָֽךְ׃ (בִ) vi. “[is] in”

and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

בִֽירוּשְׁלֶ֖ם (בִֽ) vi. “[is] in”

and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

בְּכֹ֖ל (בְּ) be. “in”בִירוּשְׁלֶֽם׃ (בִ) vi. “[is] in”

therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

בְּכַסְפָּ֣א (בְּ) be. “with”בִירוּשְׁלֶֽם׃ (בִ) vi. “[is] in”

Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do you after the will of your God.

בִּשְׁאָ֛ר (בִּ) bi “with”

I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,

בַּעֲבַ֣ר (בַּ) ba. “[are] in”

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.

בִידָךְ֙ (בִ) vi. “[is] in”בַּעֲבַ֣ר (בַּ) ba. “[is] in”

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem;

בְּלֵ֣ב (בְּ) be. “in”בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “[is] in”

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:

בְּמַלְכ֛וּת (בְּ) be. “in”

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.

בָעָם֙ (בָ) va. “<in> the”וּבַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים (בַ) va. “<in> the”

I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, [supplied: and] his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

בְּכָסִפְיָ֖א (בְּ) be. “in”בְּפִיהֶ֨ם (בְּ) be. “in”בְּכָסִפְיָ֣א (בְּ) be. “in”

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.

בְשֵׁמֽוֹת׃ (בְ) ve. “by”

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.

בַּדָּ֑רֶךְ (בַּ) ba. “on the”

Watch you, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' [supplied: houses] of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Yahweh.

בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [supplied: day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

בִּשְׁנֵ֤ים (בִּ) bi “on”

On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into 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, the Levite;

וּבַיּ֣וֹם (בַ) vai. “on the”בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “in”