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and afterward the continual burnt-offering, and [ergänzt: the offerings] of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a freewill-offering to Yahweh.

הַמְקֻדָּשִׁ֑ים (הַ) ha “<the>”

From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.

הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י (הַ) ha. “<the>”

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.

הַלְּבָנוֹן֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

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.

הַשֵּׁנִ֗ית (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ (הָֽ) ha. “<the>”הַשֵּׁנִ֑י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּ֗ם (הַ) ha “the”הַבָּאִים֙ (הַ) ha. “those”מֵהַשְּׁבִ֣י (הַ) ha. “the”הַלְוִיִּ֗ם (הַ) ha “the”

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.

הַמְּלָאכָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “the”הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”הַלְוִיִּֽם׃ (הַ) ha “the”

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.

הַבֹּנִ֖ים (הַ) ha. “the”הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּ֤ם (הַ) ha “the”

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.

הָעָ֡ם (הָ) ha. “the”

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [ergänzt: houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

מֵהַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּם֩ (הַ) ha “the”הָאָב֜וֹת (הָ) ha. “the”הַזְּקֵנִ֗ים (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַבַּ֤יִת (הַ) ha. “the”הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ (הָֽ) ha. “<the>”הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

הָעָ֗ם (הָ) ha. “the”הַשִּׂמְחָ֔ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָעָ֑ם (הָ) ha. “the”הָעָ֗ם (הָ) ha. “the”וְהַקּ֥וֹל (הַ) ha. “the”

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;

הַגּוֹלָה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

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.

הָֽאָב֗וֹת (הָֽ) ha. “the”הַמַּעֲלֶ֥ה (הַ) ha. “who”

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.

הָֽאָבוֹת֙ (הָֽ) ha. “the”הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

הָאָ֔רֶץ (הָ) ha. “the”

In the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian [ergänzt: character], and set forth in the Syrian [ergänzt: language].

הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן (הַֽ) ha. “the”

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

הַגּוֹלָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַפָּ֑סַח (הַ) ha. “the”הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ (הָ) ha. “the”

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.

הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּ֛ם (הַ) ha “the”הַפֶּ֙סַח֙ (הַ) ha. “the”הַגּוֹלָ֔ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים (הַ) ha. “the”

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,

הַשָּׁבִים֙ (הַ) ha. “who”מֵֽהַגּוֹלָ֔ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַנִּבְדָּ֛ל (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָאָ֖רֶץ (הָ) ha. “the”

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.

הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”

Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

הַדְּבָרִ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”הָאֵ֔לֶּה (הָ) ha. “<the>”

the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;

הַכֹּהֵ֖ן (הַ) ha. “the”הָרֹֽאשׁ׃ (הָ) ha. “the”

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.

הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”

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.

הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלְוִיִּ֜ם (הַ) ha “the”וְהַמְשֹׁרְרִ֧ים (הַ) ha “the”וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֛ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַנְּתִינִ֖ים (הַ) ha. “the”הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

הַחֲמִישִׁ֑י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖ית (הַ) ha. “<of the>”

For on the first [ergänzt: day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first [ergänzt: day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן (הָ) ha. “<the>”הַֽמַּעֲלָ֖ה (הַֽ) ha. “the”הַחֲמִישִׁ֗י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַטּוֹבָ֥ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel:

הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֗ן (הַֽ) ha. “the”הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”הַכֹּהֵ֖ן (הַ) ha. “the”הַסֹּפֵ֑ר (הַ) ha. “the”