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and after this a continual burnt-offering, and for new moons, and for all appointed seasons of Jehovah that are sanctified; and for every one who is willingly offering a willing-offering to Jehovah.

הַמְקֻדָּשִׁ֑ים (הַ) ha “<the>”

From the first day of the seventh month they have begun to cause burnt-offerings to ascend to Jehovah, and the temple of Jehovah hath not been founded,

הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י (הַ) ha. “<the>”

and they give money to hewers and to artificers, and food, and drink, and oil to Zidonians and to Tyrians, to bring in cedar-trees from Lebanon unto the sea of Joppa, according to the permission of Cyrus king of Persia concerning them.

הַלְּבָנוֹן֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

And in the second year of their coming in unto the house of God, to Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those coming from the captivity to Jerusalem, and they appoint the Levites from a son of twenty years and upward, to overlook the work of the house of Jehovah.

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”

And Jeshua standeth, `and' his sons, and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, sons of Judah together, to overlook those doing the work in the house of God; the sons of Henadad, `and' their sons and their brethren the Levites.

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

And those building have founded the temple of Jehovah, and they appoint the priests, clothed, with trumpets, and the Levites, sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, by means of `the instruments of' David king of Israel.

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

And they respond in praising and in giving thanks to Jehovah, for good, for to the age His kindness `is' over Israel, and all the people have shouted -- a great shout -- in giving praise to Jehovah, because the house of Jehovah hath been founded.

הָעָ֡ם (הָ) ha. “the”

And many of the priests, and the Levites, and the heads of the fathers, the aged men who had seen the first house -- in this house being founded before their eyes -- are weeping with a loud voice, and many with a shout, in joy, lifting up the voice;

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”

and the people are not discerning the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people are shouting -- a great shout -- and the noise hath been heard unto a distance.

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

And adversaries of Judah and Benjamin hear that the sons of the captivity are building a temple to Jehovah, God of Israel,

הַגּוֹלָה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

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.'

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

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.'

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

And it cometh to pass, the people of the land are making the hands of the people of Judah feeble, and troubling them in building,

הָאָ֔רֶץ (הָ) ha. “the”

and in the days of Artaxerxes have Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions written unto Artaxerxes king of Persia, and the writing of the letter is written in Aramaean, and interpreted in Aramaean.

הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן (הַֽ) ha. “the”

And the sons of the captivity make the passover on the fourteenth of the first month,

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

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.

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

And the sons of Israel, those returning from the captivity, and every one who is separated from the uncleanness of the nations of the land unto them, to seek to Jehovah, God of Israel, do eat,

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

and they make the feast of unleavened things seven days with joy, for Jehovah made them to rejoice, and turned round the heart of the king of Asshur unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”

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

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

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

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

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.

הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”

And there go up of the sons of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, unto 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”

And he cometh in to Jerusalem in the fifth month, that `is in' the seventh year of the king,

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

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,

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

And this `is' a copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe of the words of the commands of Jehovah, and of His statutes on Israel:

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