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And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord.

הַמְקֻדָּשִׁ֑ים (הַ) ha “<the>”

From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.

הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י (הַ) ha. “<the>”

And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

הַלְּבָנוֹן֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, an

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 Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites.

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

And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by Davi

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

And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was

הָעָ֡ם (הָ) ha. “the”

But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with 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 in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

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

Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;

הַגּוֹלָה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyr

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

But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has

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

Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

הָאָ֔רֶץ (הָ) ha. “the”

And in the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaean writing and language.

הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן (הַֽ) ha. “the”

And the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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

For the priests and the Levites had made themselves clean together; they were all clean: and they put the Passover lamb to death for all those who had come back, and for their brothers 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, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

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

And kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them full of joy, by turning the heart of the king of Assyria to them to give them help in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”

Now after these things, when Artaxerxes was 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 scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.

הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”

And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to 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, in the seventh year of the king's rule.

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

For, starting his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, he came to Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, by the good help of his God.

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

Now this is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe, who put into writing the words of the orders of the Lord, and of his rules for Israel:

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