H9001–/וַ–v

When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

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

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

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

They set the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

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

They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and [ergänzt: offered] the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to 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 rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.

וַיַּעֲמִ֣ידוּ (וַ) va “and”

Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, 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 brothers the Levites.

וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד (וַ) va “and”

When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel.

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

They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, [ergänzt: saying], For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel. All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid.

וַֽ֠יַּעֲנוּ (וַֽ֠) Va “and”

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

וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֔וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

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

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

But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' [ergänzt: houses] of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has 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”

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

וַיַּעֲשׂ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

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 brothers the priests, and for themselves.

וַיִּשְׁחֲט֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

The children of Israel who had come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,

וַיֹּאכְל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

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.

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 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.

וַיִּתֶּן־ (וַ) va “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, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

וַיַּֽעֲל֣וּ (וַ) va “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 loving kindness to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

וָאֶקְבְּצָ֧ה (וָ) va. “and”

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.

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, who were teachers.

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֡ה (וָ) va. “and”

I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, [ergänzt: and] his brothers 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”

According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

וַיָּבִ֨יאּוּ (וַ) va “and”