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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

כָכֶ֔ם (כָ) kha. “like”

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

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,

כָּל־ (כָּ) ko “as”

They sent him a letter saying, To Darius the king, all peace:

וְכִדְנָה֙ (כִ) khi “according to”

And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:

כְּמֵאמַ֨ר (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And they put the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their order, for the worship of God at Jerusalem; as it is recorded in the book of Moses.

כִּכְתָ֖ב (כִּ) ki “according to”

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.

כְּאֶחָ֖ד (כְּ) ke. “as”

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.

כְּיַד־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

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.

כְּיַד־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

Because you are sent by the king and his seven wise men, to get knowledge about Judah and Jerusalem, as you are ordered by the law of your God which is in your hand;

כָּל־ (כָּ) ko “as”

So with this money get with care oxen, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

כָּל־ (כָּ) ko “as”

And whatever seems right to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, that do, as may be pleasing to your God.

כִּרְע֥וּת (כִּ) ki “according to”

And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.

כְּחָכְמַ֨ת (כְּ) ke. “according to”

Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

כָּזֹאת֙ (כָּ) ka. “like”

And has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. And I was made strong by the hand of the Lord my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

כְּיַד־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And by the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;

כְּיַד־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

כַּזָּהָֽב׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittite

וּכְכַלּ֣וֹת (כְ) khe. “just as”כְּ֠תוֹעֲבֹֽתֵיהֶם (כְּ֠) Ke. “according to”

And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

וּכְשָׁמְעִי֙ (כְ) khe. “just as”

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, a

כְּהַיּ֥וֹם (כְּ) ke. “as”

And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

כִּמְעַט־ (כִּ) ki “like”

And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

כָּזֹֽאת׃ (כָּ) ka. “like”

O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

כְּהַיּ֣וֹם (כְּ) ke. “as”

Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

וּכְהִתְפַּלֵּ֤ל (כְ) khe. “just as”וּכְ֨הִתְוַדֹּת֔וֹ (כְ֨) Khe. “just as”

Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.

וְכַתּוֹרָ֖ה (כַ) kha. “according to the”