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and they draw nigh unto Zerubbabel, and unto heads of the fathers, and say to them, `Let us build with you; for, like you, we seek to your God, and we are not sacrificing since the days of Esar-Haddon king of Asshur, who brought us up hither.'

כָכֶ֔ם (כָ) kha. “like”

And Zerubbabel saith to them, also Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of the fathers of Israel, `Not for you, and for us, to build a house to our God; but we ourselves together do build to Jehovah God of Israel, as the king Cyrus, king of Persia, commanded us.'

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

Now, because that the salt of the palace `is' our salt, and the nakedness of the king we have no patience to see, therefore we have sent and made known to the king;

כָּל־ (כָּ) ko “as”

A letter they have sent unto him, and thus is it written in it:

וְכִדְנָה֙ (כִ) khi “according to”

and what they are needing -- both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil according to the saying of the priests who `are' in Jerusalem -- let be given to them day by day without fail,

כְּמֵאמַ֨ר (כְּ) ke. “according to”

and they have established the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, over the service of God that `is' in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

כִּכְתָ֖ב (כִּ) ki “according to”

for the priests and the Levites have been purified together -- all of them `are' pure -- and they slaughter the passover for all the sons of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

כְּאֶחָ֖ד (כְּ) ke. “as”

Ezra himself hath come up from Babylon, and he `is' a scribe ready in the law of Moses, that Jehovah God of Israel gave, and the king giveth to him -- according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him -- all his request.

כְּיַד־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

for on the first of the month he hath founded the ascent from Babylon, and on the first of the fifth month he hath come in unto Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him,

כְּיַד־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

because that from the king and his seven counsellors thou art sent, to inquire concerning Judah and concerning Jerusalem, with the law of God that `is' in thy hand,

כָּל־ (כָּ) ko “as”

therefore thou dost speedily buy with this money, bullocks, rams, lambs, and their presents, and their libations, and dost bring them near to the altar of the house of your God that `is' in Jerusalem,

כָּל־ (כָּ) ko “as”

and that which to thee and to thy brethren is good to do with the rest of the silver and gold, according to the will of your God ye do.'

כִּרְע֥וּת (כִּ) ki “according to”

`And thou, Ezra, according to the wisdom of thy God, that `is' in thy hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may be judges to all the people who are beyond the river, to all knowing the law of thy God, and he who hath not known ye cause to know;

כְּחָכְמַ֨ת (כְּ) ke. “according to”

Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of our fathers, who hath given such a thing as this in the heart of the king, to beautify the house of Jehovah that `is' in Jerusalem,

כָּזֹאת֙ (כָּ) ka. “like”

and unto me hath stretched out kindness before the king and his counsellors, and before all the mighty heads of the king: and I have strengthened myself as the hand of Jehovah my God `is' upon me, and I gather out of Israel heads to go up with me.

כְּיַד־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And they bring to us, according to the good hand of our God upon us, a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel, and Sherebiah, and his sons, and his brethren, eighteen;

כְּיַד־ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

and basins of gold twenty, of a thousand drams, and two vessels of good shining brass, desirable as gold.

כַּזָּהָֽב׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, `The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite,

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

And at my hearing this word, I have rent my garment and my upper robe, and pluck out of the hair of my head, and of my beard, and sit astonished,

וּכְשָׁמְעִי֙ (כְ) khe. “just as”

`From the days of our fathers we `are' in great guilt unto this day, and in our iniquities we have been given -- we, our kings, our priests -- into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as `at' this day.

כְּהַיּ֥וֹם (כְּ) ke. “as”

`And now, as a small moment hath grace been from Jehovah our God, to leave to us an escape, and to give to us a nail in His holy place, by our God's enlightening our eyes, and by giving us a little quickening in our servitude;

כִּמְעַט־ (כִּ) ki “like”

`And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this),

כָּזֹֽאת׃ (כָּ) ka. “like”

`O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteous `art' Thou, for we have been left an escape, as `it is' this day; lo, we `are' before Thee in our guilt, for there is none to stand before Thee concerning this.'

כְּהַיּ֣וֹם (כְּ) ke. “as”

And at Ezra's praying, and at his making confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there have been gathered unto him out of Israel an assembly very great -- men and women and children -- for the people have wept, multiplying weeping.

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

and now, let us make a covenant with our God, to cause all the women to go out, and that which is born of them, by the counsel of the Lord, and of those trembling at the command of our God, and according to law it is done;

וְכַתּוֹרָ֖ה (כַ) kha. “according to the”