H9001–/וַ–v

And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people assembled themselves as one man at 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 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 upon its bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt-offerings on it to the LORD, even burnt-offerings morning and evening.

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

They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

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

וַיִּ֨תְּנוּ־ (וַ) va “and”

Now 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 appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

וַיַּעֲמִ֣ידוּ (וַ) va “and”

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

וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד (וַ) va “and”

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

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

And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks to the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

וַֽ֠יַּעֲנוּ (וַֽ֠) Va “and”

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to the LORD God of Israel;

וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֔וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said to them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice to him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, who brought us up hither.

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

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

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ (וַ) va “and”

Then 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 kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

וַיַּעֲשׂ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

For the priests and the Levites were purified 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.

וַיִּשְׁחֲט֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the children of Israel, who had returned from captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,

וַיֹּאכְל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD 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 from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

וַיִּתֶּן־ (וַ) va “and”

And there went some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, 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 hath extended mercy to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I assembled out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

וָאֶקְבְּצָ֧ה (וָ) va. “and”

And I assembled them at the river that runneth to Ahava; and there we abode in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

וָֽאֶקְבְּצֵ֗ם (וָֽ) va. “and”וַנַּחֲנֶ֥ה (וַ) va. “and”וָאָבִ֤ינָה (וָ) va. “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, men of understanding.

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֡ה (וָ) va. “and”

And I sent them with commandment to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say to Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, 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; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

וַיָּבִ֨יאּוּ (וַ) va “and”