H9001–/וַ–v

And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.

וַיִּגַּע֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּאָסְפ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer up burnt-offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

וַיָּקָם֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְנ֕וּ (וַ) va “and”

And they set the altar on its base; for fear was upon them because of the people of the countries; and they offered up burnt-offerings on it to Jehovah, the morning and evening burnt-offerings.

וַיָּכִ֤ינוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּעֲל֨וּ (וַ) va “and”

And they held the feast of tabernacles as it is written, and [ergänzt: offered] daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

And they gave money to the masons and to the carpenters; and meat and drink and oil to the Zidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

וַיִּ֨תְּנוּ־ (וַ) va “and”

And in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem; and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to superintend the work of the house of Jehovah.

וַיַּעֲמִ֣ידוּ (וַ) va “and”

And Jeshua stood up, his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, as one [ergänzt: man], to superintend the workmen in the house of God; [ergänzt: also] the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brethren, the Levites.

וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד (וַ) va “and”

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 according to the directions of David king of Israel.

וְיִסְּד֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וַיַּעֲמִידוּ֩ (וַ) va “and”

And they sang alternately together in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness [ergänzt: endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.

וַֽ֠יַּעֲנוּ (וַֽ֠) Va “and”

And the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to Jehovah the God of Israel;

וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֔וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

and they came to Zerubbabel and to the chief fathers, and said to them, We would build with you; for we seek your God, as ye; and we have sacrificed to him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.

וַיִּגְּשׁ֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the chief fathers of Israel said to them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God, but we alone will build to Jehovah the God of Israel, as king Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ (וַ) va “and”

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

וַיְהִי֙ (וַ) va “and”

And the children of the captivity held the passover upon the fourteenth of the first month.

וַיַּעֲשׂ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves as one [ergänzt: man]: they were all pure; and they killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

וַיִּשְׁחֲט֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

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

וַיֹּאכְל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

and they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for Jehovah had made them joyful, and 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.

וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֧וּ (וַ) va “and”וְֽהֵסֵ֞ב (וְֽ) ve. “and”

-- 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.

וַיִּתֶּן־ (וַ) va “and”

(And there went up [ergänzt: some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.)

וַיַּֽעֲל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

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

וַיָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va “and”

and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened, as the hand of Jehovah my God was upon me; and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

וָאֶקְבְּצָ֧ה (וָ) va. “and”

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

וָֽאֶקְבְּצֵ֗ם (וָֽ) va. “and”וַנַּחֲנֶ֥ה (וַ) va. “and”וָאָבִ֤ינָה (וָ) va. “and”

And I sent 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, and for Joiarib and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֡ה (וָ) va. “and”

And I gave them a commission to Iddo the chief, at the place Casiphia, and I put words in their mouths to say to Iddo [ergänzt: and] his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

וָאֲצַוֶּ֤ה (וָ) va. “and”וָאָשִׂימָה֩ (וָ) va. “and”

And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely, Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

וַיָּבִ֨יאּוּ (וַ) va “and”