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and afterward the continual burnt-offering, and [supplied: the offerings] of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Jehovah that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill-offering unto Jehovah.

הַמְקֻדָּשִׁ֑ים (הַ) ha “<the>”

From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid.

הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י (הַ) ha. “<the>”

They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

הַלְּבָנוֹן֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah.

הַשֵּׁנִ֗ית (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ (הָֽ) ha. “<the>”הַשֵּׁנִ֑י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּ֗ם (הַ) ha “the”הַבָּאִים֙ (הַ) ha. “those”מֵהַשְּׁבִ֣י (הַ) ha. “the”הַלְוִיִּ֗ם (הַ) ha “the”

Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

הַמְּלָאכָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “the”הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”הַלְוִיִּֽם׃ (הַ) ha “the”

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the order of David king of Israel.

הַבֹּנִ֖ים (הַ) ha. “the”הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּ֤ם (הַ) ha “the”

And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks unto Jehovah, [supplied: saying], For he is good, for his lovingkindness [supplied: endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.

הָעָ֡ם (הָ) ha. “the”

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [supplied: houses], the old men that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

מֵהַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּם֩ (הַ) ha “the”הָאָב֜וֹת (הָ) ha. “the”הַזְּקֵנִ֗ים (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַבַּ֤יִת (הַ) ha. “the”הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ (הָֽ) ha. “<the>”הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

הָעָ֗ם (הָ) ha. “the”הַשִּׂמְחָ֔ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָעָ֑ם (הָ) ha. “the”הָעָ֗ם (הָ) ha. “the”וְהַקּ֥וֹל (הַ) ha. “the”

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple unto Jehovah, the God of Israel;

הַגּוֹלָה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers' [supplied: houses], and said unto them, Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as ye do; and we sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.

הָֽאָב֗וֹת (הָֽ) ha. “the”הַמַּעֲלֶ֥ה (הַ) ha. “who”

But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' [supplied: houses] of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us in building a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

הָֽאָבוֹת֙ (הָֽ) ha. “the”הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

הָאָ֔רֶץ (הָ) ha. “the”

And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian [supplied: character], and set forth in the Syrian [supplied: tongue].

הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן (הַֽ) ha. “the”

And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [supplied: day] of the first month.

הַגּוֹלָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַפָּ֑סַח (הַ) ha. “the”הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ (הָ) ha. “the”

For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּ֛ם (הַ) ha “the”הַפֶּ֙סַח֙ (הַ) ha. “the”הַגּוֹלָ֔ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים (הַ) ha. “the”

And the children of Israel that were come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, did eat,

הַשָּׁבִים֙ (הַ) ha. “who”מֵֽהַגּוֹלָ֔ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַנִּבְדָּ֛ל (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָאָ֖רֶץ (הָ) ha. “the”

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

הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”

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,

הַדְּבָרִ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”הָאֵ֔לֶּה (הָ) ha. “<the>”

the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;

הַכֹּהֵ֖ן (הַ) ha. “the”הָרֹֽאשׁ׃ (הָ) ha. “the”

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

הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”

And 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, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּ֜ם (הַ) ha “the”וְהַמְשֹׁרְרִ֧ים (הַ) ha “the”וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֛ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַנְּתִינִ֖ים (הַ) ha. “the”הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

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

הַחֲמִישִׁ֑י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖ית (הַ) ha. “<of the>”

For upon 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 upon him.

הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן (הָ) ha. “<the>”הַֽמַּעֲלָ֖ה (הַֽ) ha. “the”הַחֲמִישִׁ֗י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַטּוֹבָ֥ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:

הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֗ן (הַֽ) ha. “the”הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”הַכֹּהֵ֖ן (הַ) ha. “the”הַסֹּפֵ֑ר (הַ) ha. “the”