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neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you did testify against them.

בָּהֶֽם׃ (בָּ) ba. “<in>”

For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

בְּמַלְכוּתָם֩ (בְּ) be. “in”וּבְטוּבְךָ֨ (בְ) ve. “in”וּבְאֶ֨רֶץ (בְ) ve. “in”

It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

בְּחַטֹּאותֵ֑ינוּ (בְּ) be. “in”וּבִבְהֶמְתֵּ֙נוּ֙ (בִ) vi “over”וּבְצָרָ֥ה (בְ) ve. “[are] in”

Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [ergänzt: and] our priests, seal to it.

וּבְכָל־ (בְ) ve. “in”

They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

בְּאָלָ֣ה (בְּ) be. “in”וּבִשְׁבוּעָ֗ה (בִ) vi “in”בְּתוֹרַ֣ת (בְּ) be. “in”בְּיַ֖ד (בְּ) be. “by”

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

בְּי֤וֹם (בְּ) be. “on”בַּשַּׁבָּ֖ת (בַּ) ba. “on the”וּבְי֣וֹם (בְ) ve. “on”

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law;

בְשָׁנָ֑ה (בְ) ve. “in”בַּתּוֹרָֽה׃ (בַּ) ba. “in the”

and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;

בְשָׁנָ֑ה (בְ) ve. “in”

also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;

בַּתּוֹרָ֑ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּבֵ֥ית (בְּ) be. “in”

and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

בְּכֹ֖ל (בְּ) be. “in”

The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house.

בַּעְשֵׂ֣ר (בַּ) ba “when”

The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [ergänzt: other] cities.

בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”בִּֽירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ (בִּֽ) bi. “in”בֶּעָרִֽים׃ (בֶּ) be. “[were] in the”

The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, [ergänzt: to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”וּבְעָרֵ֣י (בְ) ve. “in”בַּאֲחֻזָּתוֹ֙ (בַּ) ba. “on”בְּעָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם (בְּ) be. “in”

In Jerusalem lived certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;

וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ (בִֽ) vi. “in”

All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.

בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.

בְּעִ֣יר (בְּ) be. “in”

Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.

בַּשְּׁעָרִ֑ים (בַּ) ba. “at the”

The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.

בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “[were] in”בְּנַחֲלָתֽוֹ׃ (בְּ) be. “on”

But the Nethinim lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

בָּעֹ֑פֶל (בָּ) ba. “on <the>”

The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of the house of God.

בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

בְּיוֹמֽוֹ׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and the towns of it, and in Dibon and the towns of it, and in Jekabzeel and the villages of it,

בִּשְׂדֹתָ֑ם (בִּ) bi “with”בְּקִרְיַ֤ת (בְּ) be. “in”וּבְדִיבֹן֙ (בְ) ve. “in”וּבִֽיקַּבְצְאֵ֖ל (בִֽ) vi. “in”

and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth Pelet,

וּבְיֵשׁ֥וּעַ (בְ) ve. “in”וּבְמוֹלָדָ֖ה (בְ) ve. “in”וּבְבֵ֥ית (בְ) ve. “in”