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Ezra","Category: History - Ancient","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS\n\nThis Book taketh its name from the writer: who was a holy priest, and\ndoctor of the law. He is called by the Hebrews, Ezra.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 1\n\nCyrus king of Persia releaseth God's people from their captivity, with\nlicense to return and build the temple in Jerusalem: and restoreth the\nholy vessels which Nabuchodonosor had taken from thence.\n\n1:1. In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of\nthe Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred\nup the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation\nthroughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:\n\n1:2. Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven\nhath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me\nto build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.\n\n1:3. Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him. Let\nhim go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the\nLord the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem.\n\n1:4. And let all the rest in all places wheresoever they dwell, help him\nevery man from his place, with silver and gold, and goods, and cattle,\nbesides that which they offer freely to the temple of God, which is in\nJerusalem.\n\n1:5. Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and the\npriests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up, to\ngo up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.\n\n1:6. And all they that were round about, helped their hands with vessels\nof silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with furniture,\nbesides what they had offered on their own accord.\n\n1:7. And king Cyrus brought forth vessels of the temple of the Lord,\nwhich Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusalem, and had put them in the\ntemple of his god.\n\n1:8. Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of\nMithridates the son of Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar the\nprince of Juda.\n\n1:9. And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand\nbowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,\n\n1:10. Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred and ten: other vessels\na thousand.\n\n1:11. All the vessels of gold and silver, five thousand four hundred:\nall these Sassabasar brought with them that came up from the captivity\nof Babylon to Jerusalem.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 2\n\nThe number of them that returned to Judea: their oblations.\n\n2:1. Now these are the children of the province, that went out of the\ncaptivity, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away to\nBabylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Juda, every man to his city.\n\n2:2. Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemia, Saraia, Rahelaia,\nMardochai, Belsan, Mesphar, Beguai, Rehum, Baana. The number of the men\nof the people of Israel:\n\n2:3. The children of Pharos two thousand one hundred seventy-two.\n\n2:4. The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.\n\n2:5. The children of Area, seven hundred seventy-five.\n\n2:6. The children of Phahath Moab, of the children of Josue: Joab, Two\nthousand eight hundred twelve.\n\n2:7. The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n2:8. The children of Zethua, nine hundred forty-five.\n\n2:9. The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.\n\n2:10. The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.\n\n2:11. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:12. The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty-two.\n\n2:13. The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-six.\n\n2:14. The children of Beguai, two thousand fifty-six.\n\n2:15. The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.\n\n2:16. The children of Ather, who were of Ezechias, ninety-eight.\n\n2:17. The children of Besai, three hundred and twenty-three.\n\n2:18. The children of Jora, a hundred and twelve.\n\n2:19. The children of Hasum, two hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:20. The children of Gebbar, ninety-five.\n\n2:21. The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:22. The men of Netupha, fifty-six.\n\n2:23. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n2:24. The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.\n\n2:25. The children of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred\nforty-three.\n\n2:26. The children of Rama and Gabaa, six hundred twenty-one.\n\n2:27. The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.\n\n2:28. The men of Bethel and Hai, two hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:29. The children of Nebo, fifty-two.\n\n2:30. The children of Megbis, a hundred fifty-six.\n\n2:31. The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-five.\n\n2:32. The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.\n\n2:33. The children of Lod, Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.\n\n2:34. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.\n\n2:35. The children of Senaa, three thousand six hundred thirty.\n\n2:36. The priests: the children of Jadaia of the house of Josue, nine\nhundred seventy-three.\n\n2:37. The children of Emmer, a thousand fifty-two.\n\n2:38. The children of Pheshur, a thousand two hundred forty-seven.\n\n2:39. The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.\n\n2:40. The Levites: the children of Josue and of Cedmihel, the children\nof Odovia, seventy-four.\n\n2:41. The singing men: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n2:42. The children of the porters: the children of Sellum, the children\nof Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of\nHatita, the children of Sobai: in all a hundred thirty-nine.\n\n2:43. The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the children of Hasupha, the\nchildren of Tabbaoth,\n\n2:44. The children of Ceros, the children of Sia, the children of\nPhadon,\n\n2:45. The children of Lebana, the children of Hegaba, the children of\nAccub,\n\n2:46. The children of Hagab, the children of Semlai, the children of\nHanan,\n\n2:47. The children of Gaddel, the children of Gaher, the children of\nRaaia,\n\n2:48. The children of Rasin, the children of Necoda, the children of\nGazam,\n\n2:49. The children of Asa, the children of Phasea, the children of\nBesee,\n\n2:50. The children of Asena, the children of Munim, the children of\nNephusim,\n\n2:51. The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of\nHarhur,\n\n2:52. The children of Besluth, the children of Mahida, the children of\nHarsa,\n\n2:53. The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of\nThema,\n\n2:54. The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,\n\n2:55. The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sotai,\nthe children of Sopheret, the children of Pharuda,\n\n2:56. The children of Jala, the children of Dercon, the children of\nGeddel,\n\n2:57. The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of\nPhochereth, which were of Asebaim, the children of Ami,\n\n2:58. All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon,\nthree hundred ninety-two.\n\n2:59. And these are they that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub,\nand Adon, and Emer. And they could not shew the house of their fathers\nand their seed, whether they were of Israel.\n\n2:60. The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of\nNecoda, six hundred fifty-two.\n\n2:61. And of the children of the priests: the children of Hobia, the\nchildren of Accos, the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the\ndaughters of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and was called by their name:\n\n2:62. These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not, and\nthey were cast out of the priesthood.\n\n2:63. And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy\nof holies, till there arose a priest learned and perfect.\n\n2:64. All the multitudes as one man, were forty-two thousand three\nhundred and sixty:\n\nForty-two thousand, etc... Those who are reckoned up above of the tribes\nof Juda, Benjamin, and Levi, fall short of this number.  The rest, who\nmust be taken in to make up the whole sum, were of the other tribes.\n\n2:65. Besides their menservants, and womenservants, of whom there were\nseven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and among them singing\nmen, and singing women two hundred.\n\n2:66. Their horses seven hundred thirty-six, their mules two hundred\nforty-five,\n\n2:67. Their camels four hundred thirty-five, their asses six thousand\nseven hundred and twenty.\n\n2:68. And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple\nof the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the\nLord to build it in its place.\n\n2:69. According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the\nwork, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of silver,\nand a hundred garments for the priests.\n\n2:70. So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the\nsinging men, and the porters, and the Nathinites dwelt in their cities,\nand all Israel in their cities.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 3\n\nAn altar is built for sacrifice, the feast of tabernacles is solemnly\ncelebrated, and the foundations of the temple are laid.\n\n3:1. And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were\nin their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man\nto Jerusalem.\n\n3:2. And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests,\nand Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the\naltar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as\nit is written in the law of Moses the man of God.\n\nJosue... or Jesus (Jeshua) the son of Josedec; he was the high priest,\nat that time.\n\n3:3. And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of\nthe lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a\nholocaust to the Lord morning and evening.\n\n3:4. And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and\noffered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment,\nthe duty of the day in its day.\n\n3:5. And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and\non all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in\nwhich a freewill offering was made to the Lord.\n\n3:6. From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer\nholocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.\n\n3:7. And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and\ndrink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from\nLibanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of\nthe Persians had given them.\n\n3:8. And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in\nJerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue\nthe son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the\nLevites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began,\nand they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten\nforward the work of the Lord.\n\n3:9. Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons,\nand the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the\nwork in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and\ntheir brethren the Levites.\n\n3:10. And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the\nLord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the\nLevites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of\nDavid king of Israel.\n\n3:11. And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he\nis good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the\npeople shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the\nfoundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.\n\n3:12. But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the\nfathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had\nthe foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice:\nand many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.\n\n3:13. So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy,\nfrom the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the\npeople shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 4\n\nThe Samaritans by their letter to the king hinder the building.\n\n4:1. Now the enemies of Juda and Benjamin heard that the children of the\ncaptivity were building a temple to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n4:2. And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said\nto them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold we\nhave sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of Assyria,\nwho brought us hither.\n\n4:3. But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest of the chief of the fathers\nof Israel said to them: You have nothing to do with us to build a house\nto our God, but we ourselves alone will build to the Lord our God, as\nCyrus king of the Persians hath commanded us.\n\n4:4. Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of\nJuda, and troubled them in building.\n\n4:5. And they hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their design\nall the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius\nking of the Persians.\n\n4:6. And in the reign of Assuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they\nwrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.\n\nAssuerus... Otherwise called Cambyses the son and successor of Cyrus. He\nis also in the following verse named Artaxerxes, a name common to almost\nall the kings of Persia.\n\n4:7. And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam, Mithridates, and Thabeel,\nand the rest that were in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the\nPersians: and the letter of accusation was written in Syrian, and was\nread in the Syrian tongue.\n\n4:8. Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe wrote a letter from Jerusalem\nto king Artaxerxes, in this manner:\n\n4:9. Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe and the rest of their\ncounsellors, the Dinites, and the Apharsathacites, the Therphalites, the\nApharsites, the Erchuites, the Babylonians, the Susanechites, the\nDievites, and the Elamites,\n\n4:10. And the rest of the nations, whom the great and glorious Asenaphar\nbrought over: and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria and in the rest\nof the countries of this side of the river in peace.\n\n4:11. (This is the copy of the letter, which they sent to him:) To\nArtaxerxes the king, thy servants, the men that are on this side of the\nriver, send greeting.\n\n4:12. Be it known to the king, that the Jews, who came up from thee to\nus, are come to Jerusalem a rebellious and wicked city, which they are\nbuilding, setting up the ramparts thereof and repairing the walls.\n\n4:13. And now be it known to the king, that if this city be built up,\nand the walls thereof repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor\nyearly revenues, and this loss will fall upon the kings.\n\n4:14. But we remembering the salt that we have eaten in the palace, and\nbecause we count it a crime to see the king wronged, have therefore sent\nand certified the king,\n\n4:15. That search may be made in the books of the histories of thy\nfathers, and thou shalt find written in the records: and shalt know that\nthis city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to the kings and provinces,\nand that wars were raised therein of old time: for which cause also the\ncity was destroyed.\n\n4:16. We certify the king, that if this city be built, and the walls\nthereof repaired, thou shalt have no possession on this side of the\nriver.\n\n4:17. The king sent word to Reum Beelteem and Samsai the scribe, and to\nthe rest that were in their council, inhabitants of Samaria, and to the\nrest beyond the river, sending greeting and peace.\n\n4:18. The accusation, which you have sent to us, hath been plainly read\nbefore me,\n\n4:19. And I commanded: and search hath been made, and it is found, that\nthis city of old time hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and\nwars have been raised therein.\n\n4:20. For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had\ndominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have\nreceived tribute, and toll and revenues.\n\n4:21. Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city\nbe not built, till further orders be given by me.\n\n4:22. See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little\nand little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.\n\n4:23. Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum\nBeelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went up\nin haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.\n\n4:24. Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was\ninterrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius king\nof the Persians.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 5\n\nBy the exhortation of Aggeus, and Zacharias, the people proceed in\nbuilding the temple. Which their enemies strive in vain to hinder.\n\n5:1. Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied\nto the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of\nIsrael.\n\n5:2. Then rose up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of\nJosedec, and began to build the temple of God in Jerusalem, and with\nthem were the prophets of God helping them.\n\n5:3. And at the same time came to them Thathanai, who was governor\nbeyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and their counsellors: and said thus\nto them: Who hath given you counsel to build this house, and to repair\nthe walls thereof?\n\n5:4. In answer to which we gave them the names of the men who were the\npromoters of that building.\n\n5:5. But the eye of their God was upon the ancients of the Jews, and\nthey could not hinder them. And it was agreed that the matter should be\nreferred to Darius, and then they should give satisfaction concerning\nthat accusation.\n\n5:6. The copy of the letter that Thathanai governor of the country\nbeyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors the\nArphasachites, who dwelt beyond the river, sent to Darius the king.\n\n5:7. The letter which they sent him, was written thus: To Darius the\nking all peace.\n\n5:8. Be it known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to\nthe house of the great God, which they are building with unpolished\nstones, and timber is laid in the walls: and this work is carried on\ndiligently and advanceth in their hands.\n\n5:9. And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given\nyou authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?\n\n5:10. We asked also of them their names, that we might give thee notice:\nand we have written the names of the men that are the chief among them.\n\n5:11. And they answered us in these words, saying: We are the servants\nof the God of heaven and earth, and we are building a temple that was\nbuilt these many years ago, and which a great king of Israel built and\nset up.\n\n5:12. But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to\nwrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the\npeople to Babylon.\n\n5:13. But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus set\nforth a decree, that this house of God should be built.\n\n5:14. And the vessels also of gold and silver of the temple of God,\nwhich Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem,\nand had brought them to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus brought out of\nthe temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one Sassabasar, whom\nalso he appointed governor,\n\n5:15. And said to him: Take these vessels, and go, and put them in the\ntemple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its\nplace.\n\n5:16. Then came this same Sassabasar, and laid the foundations of the\ntemple of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is in\nbuilding, and is not yet finished.\n\n5:17. Now therefore if it seem good to the king, let him search in the\nking's library, which is in Babylon, whether it hath been decreed by\nCyrus the king, that the house of God in Jerusalem should be built, and\nlet the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 6\n\nKing Darius favoureth the building and contributeth to it.\n\n6:1. Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of\nthe books that were laid up in Babylon,\n\n6:2. And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province\nof Media, a book in which this record was written.\n\n6:3. In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that\nthe house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place\nwhere they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that\nmay support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of\nthreescore cubits,\n\n6:4. Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the\ncharges shall be given out of the king's house.\n\n6:5. And also let the golden and silver vessels of the temple of God,\nwhich Nabuchodonosor took out of the temple of Jerusalem, and brought to\nBabylon, be restored, and carried back to the temple of Jerusalem to\ntheir place, which also were placed in the temple of God.\n\n6:6. Now therefore Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river,\nStharbuzanai, and your counsellors the Apharsachites, who are beyond the\nriver, depart far from them,\n\n6:7. And let that temple of God be built by the governor of the Jews,\nand by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in its\nplace.\n\n6:8. I also have commanded what must be done by those ancients of the\nJews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the king's\nchest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond\nthe river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work\nbe hindered.\n\n6:9. And if it shall be necessary, let calves also, and lambs, and kids,\nfor holocausts to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil,\naccording to the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem, be given\nthem day by day, that there be no complaint in any thing.\n\n6:10. And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for\nthe life of the king, and of his children.\n\n6:11. And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this\ncommandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be\nnailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.\n\n6:12. And may the God, that hath caused his name to dwell there, destroy\nall kingdoms, and the people that shall put out their hand to resist,\nand to destroy the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. I Darius have\nmade the decree, which I will have diligently complied with.\n\n6:13. So then Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river, and\nStharbuzanai, and his counsellors diligently executed what Darius the\nking had commanded.\n\n6:14. And the ancients of the Jews built, and prospered according to the\nprophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo: and\nthey built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel, and by\nthe commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of the\nPersians.\n\n6:15. And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of\nthe month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king\nDarius.\n\n6:16. And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the\nrest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of the house\nof God with joy.\n\n6:17. And they offered at the dedication of the house of God, a hundred\ncalves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin offering for\nall Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of\nIsrael.\n\n6:18. And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in\ntheir courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in\nthe book of Moses.\n\n6:19. And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on the\nfourteenth day of the first month.\n\n6:20. For all the priests and the Levites were purified as one man: all\nwere clean to kill the phase for all the children of the captivity, and\nfor their brethren the priests, and themselves.\n\n6:21. And the children of Israel that were returned from captivity, and\nall that had separated themselves from the filthiness of the nations of\nthe earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat.\n\n6:22. And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy,\nfor the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king\nof Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the\nhouse of the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 7\n\nEsdras goeth up to Jerusalem to teach, and assist the people, with a\ngracious decree of Artaxerxes.\n\n7:1. Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the\nPersians, Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of\nHelcias,\n\n7:2. The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob,\n\n7:3. The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth,\n\n7:4. The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci,\n\n7:5. The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son\nof Aaron, the priest from the beginning.\n\n7:6. This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the\nlaw of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king\ngranted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God\nupon him.\n\n7:7. And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the\nchildren of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the\nsinging men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in\nthe seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.\n\n7:8. And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year\nof the king.\n\n7:9. For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from\nBabylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem\naccording to the good hand of his God upon him.\n\n7:10. For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and\nto do and to teach in Israel the commandments and judgment.\n\n7:11. And this is the copy of the letter of the edict, which king\nArtaxerxes gave to Esdras the priest, the scribe instructed in the words\nand commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies in Israel.\n\n7:12. Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned\nscribe of the law of the God of heaven, greeting.\n\n7:13. It is decreed by me, that all they of the people of Israel, and of\nthe priests and of the Levites in my realm, that are minded to go into\nJerusalem, should go with thee.\n\n7:14. For thou art sent from before the king, and his seven counsellors,\nto visit Judea and Jerusalem according to the law of thy God, which is\nin thy hand.\n\n7:15. And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his\ncounsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose tabernacle\nis in Jerusalem.\n\n7:16. And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the\nprovince of Babylon, and that the people is willing to offer, and that\nthe priests shall offer of their own accord to the house of their God,\nwhich is in Jerusalem,\n\n7:17. Take freely, and buy diligently with this money, calves, rams,\nlambs, with the sacrifices and libations of them, and offer them upon\nthe altar of the temple of your God, that is in Jerusalem.\n\n7:18. And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing\nwith the rest of the silver and gold, do it according to the will of\nyour God.\n\n7:19. The vessels also, that are given thee for the sacrifice of the\nhouse of thy God, deliver thou in the sight of God in Jerusalem.\n\n7:20. And whatsoever more there shall be need of for the house of thy\nGod, how much soever thou shalt have occasion to spend, it shall be\ngiven out of the treasury, and the king's exchequer, and by me.\n\n7:21. I Artaxerxes the king have ordered and decreed to all the keepers\nof the public chest, that are beyond the river, that whatsoever Esdras\nthe priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of\nyou, you give it without delay,\n\n7:22. Unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred cores of\nwheat, and unto a hundred bates of wine, and unto a hundred bates of\noil, and salt without measure.\n\n7:23. All that belongeth to the rites of the God of heaven, let it be\ngiven diligently in the house of the God of heaven: lest his wrath\nshould be enkindled against the realm of the king, and of his sons.\n\n7:24. We give you also to understand concerning all the priests, and the\nLevites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinites, and\nministers of the house of this God, that you have no authority to impose\ntoll or tribute, or custom upon them.\n\n7:25. And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in\nthy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the people,\nthat is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of thy God,\nyea and the ignorant teach ye freely.\n\n7:26. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the\nking diligently, judgment shall be executed upon him, either unto death,\nor unto banishment, or to the confiscation of goods, or at least to\nprison.\n\n7:27. Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in\nthe king's heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in\nJerusalem,\n\n7:28. And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his\ncounsellors, and all the mighty princes of the king: and I being\nstrengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was upon me, gathered\ntogether out of Israel chief men to go up with me.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 8\n\nThe companions of Esdras. The fast which he appointed. They bring the\nholy vessels into the temple.\n\n8:1. Now these are the chief of families, and the genealogy of them, who\ncame up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.\n\n8:2. Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of\nthe sons of David, Hattus.\n\n8:3. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos, Zacharias, and with\nhim were numbered a hundred and fifty men.\n\n8:4. Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of Zareha, and with\nhim two hundred men.\n\n8:5. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and with him three\nhundred men.\n\n8:6. Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty\nmen.\n\n8:7. Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and with him\nseventy men.\n\n8:8. Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael, and with him\neighty men.\n\n8:9. Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two\nhundred and eighteen men.\n\n8:10. Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and with him a\nhundred and sixty men.\n\n8:11. Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him\neight and twenty men.\n\n8:12. Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and with him a\nhundred and ten men.\n\n8:13. Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the last: and these are their\nnames: Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Samaias, and with them sixty men.\n\n8:14. Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur, and with them seventy men.\n\n8:15. And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to\nAhava, and we stayed there three days: and I sought among the people and\namong the priests for the sons of Levi, and found none there.\n\n8:16. So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Semeias, and Elnathan, and\nJarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zacharias, and Mosollam,\nchief men: and Joiarib, and Elnathan, wise men.\n\n8:17. And I sent them to Eddo, who is chief in the place of Chasphia,\nand I put in their mouth the words that they should speak to Eddo, and\nhis brethren the Nathinites in the place of Chasphia, that they should\nbring us ministers of the house of our God.\n\n8:18. And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a most\nlearned man of the sons of Moholi the son of Levi the son of Israel, and\nSarabias and his sons, and his brethren eighteen,\n\n8:19. And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of Merari, and his\nbrethren, and his sons twenty.\n\n8:20. And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the\nservice of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these\nwere called by their names.\n\n8:21. And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might\nafflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right\nway for us and for our children, and for all our substance.\n\nAnd I proclaimed a fast... It is not enough to part from Babylon, that\nis, figuratively from sin, but we must also do works of penance; and\ntherefore Esdras here proclaimed an extraordinary fast to those that\nwere come from captivity. This shews that fasting was commanded and\npractised from the earliest times.\n\n8:22. For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to\ndefend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king:\nThe hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his\npower and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.\n\n8:23. And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out\nprosperously unto us.\n\n8:24. And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and\nHasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,\n\n8:25. And I weighed unto them the silver and gold, and the vessels\nconsecrated for the house of our God, which the king and his\ncounsellors, and his princes, and all Israel, that were found had\noffered.\n\n8:26. And I weighed to their hands six hundred and fifty talents of\nsilver, and a hundred vessels of silver, and a hundred talents of gold,\n\n8:27. And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of\nthe best shining brass, beautiful as gold.\n\n8:28. And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the\nvessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to the\nLord the God of our fathers.\n\n8:29. Watch ye and keep them, till you deliver them by weight before the\nchief of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the families\nof Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasure of the house of the Lord.\n\n8:30. And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver\nand gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of\nour God.\n\n8:31. Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the\nfirst month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and\ndelivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by\nthe way.\n\n8:32. And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there three days.\n\n8:33. And on the fourth day the silver and the gold, and the vessels\nwere weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of\nUrias the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with\nthem Jozabad the son of Josue, and Noadaia the son of Benoi, Levites.\n\n8:34. According to the number and weight of everything: and all the\nweight was written at that time.\n\n8:35. Moreover the children of them that had been carried away that were\ncome out of the captivity, offered holocausts to the God of Israel,\ntwelve calves for all the people of Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-\nseven lambs, and twelve he goats for sin: all for a holocaust to the\nLord.\n\n8:36. And they gave the king's edicts to the lords that were from the\nking's court, and the governors beyond the river, and they furthered the\npeople and the house of God.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 9\n\nEsdras mourneth for the transgression of the people: his confession and\nprayer.\n\n9:1. And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me,\nsaying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not\nseparated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their\nabominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the\nPherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and\nthe Egyptians, and the Amorrhites.\n\nThis shows how sinful it is to intermarry with those that the Church\nforbids us, on account of the danger of perversion and falling off from\nthe true faith.\n\n9:2. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their\nsons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands.\nAnd the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this\ntransgression.\n\n9:3. And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and\nplucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.\n\n9:4. And there were assembled to me all that feared the God of Israel,\nbecause of the transgression of those that were come from the captivity,\nand I sat sorrowful, until the evening sacrifice.\n\n9:5. And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction, and\nhaving rent my mantle and my garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread\nout my hands to the Lord my God,\n\n9:6. And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to\nthee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are\ngrown up even unto heaven,\n\n9:7. From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned\ngrievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and\nour priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the\nlands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to\nconfusion of face, as it is at this day.\n\n9:8. And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made\nbefore the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his\nholy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us\na little life in our bondage.\n\nA pin... or nail, here signifies a small settlement or holding; which\nEsdras begs for, to preserve even a part of the people, who, by their\ngreat iniquity had incurred the anger of God.\n\n9:9. For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken\nus, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to\ngive us life, and to set up the house of our God, and to rebuild the\ndesolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n9:10. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have\nforsaken thy commandments,\n\n9:11. Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the\nprophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land,\naccording to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with\ntheir abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their\nfilth.\n\n9:12. Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, and take not\ntheir daughters for your sons, and seek not their peace, nor their\nprosperity for ever: that you may be strengthened, and may eat the good\nthings of the land, and may have your children your heirs for ever.\n\n9:13. And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds, and\nour great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity,\nand hast given us a deliverance as at this day,\n\n9:14. That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor join\nin marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry with\nus unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?\n\n9:15. O Lord God of Israel, thou art just: for we remain yet to be saved\nas at this day. Behold we are before thee in our sin, for there can be\nno standing before thee in this matter.\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 10\n\nOrder is given for discharging strange women: the names of the guilty.\n\n10:1. Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and\nlying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an\nexceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people\nwept with much lamentation.\n\n10:2. And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and\nsaid to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange\nwives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in\nIsrael concerning this,\n\n10:3. Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the\nwives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord,\nand of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be\ndone according to the law.\n\n10:4. Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee:\ntake courage, and do it.\n\n10:5. So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the\nLevites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this\nword, and they swore.\n\n10:6. And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the\nchamber of Johanan the son of Eliasib, and entered in thither: he ate no\nbread, and drank no water: for he mourned for the transgression of them\nthat were come out of the captivity.\n\n10:7. And proclamation was made in Juda and Jerusalem to all the\nchildren of the captivity, that they should assemble together into\nJerusalem.\n\n10:8. And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to\nthe counsel of the princes and the ancients, all his substance should be\ntaken away, and he should be cast out of the company of them that were\nreturned from captivity.\n\n10:9. Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves\ntogether to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the\ntwentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the\nhouse of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain.\n\n10:10. And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have\ntransgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel.\n\n10:11. And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and\ndo his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land,\nand from your strange wives.\n\n10:12. And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice:\nAccording to thy word unto us, so be it done.\n\n10:13. But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and we are\nnot able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for\nwe have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)\n\n10:14. Let rulers be appointed in all the multitude: and in all our\ncities, let them that have taken strange wives come at the times\nappointed, and with them the ancients and the judges of every city,\nuntil the wrath of our God be turned away from us for this sin.\n\n10:15. Then Jonathan the son of Azahel, and Jaasia the son of Thecua\nwere appointed over this, and Mesollam and Sebethai, Levites, helped\nthem:\n\n10:16. And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest,\nand the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and\nall by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth\nmonth to examine the matter.\n\n10:17. And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange\nwives by the first day of the first month.\n\n10:18. And there were found among the sons of the priests that had taken\nstrange wives: Of the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his\nbrethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia.\n\n10:19. And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer\nfor their offence a ram of the flock.\n\n10:20. And of the sons of Emmer, Hanani, and Zebedia.\n\n10:21. And of the sons of Harim, Maasia, and Elia, and Semeia, and\nJehiel, and Ozias.\n\n10:22. And of the sons of Pheshur, Elioenai, Maasia, Ismael, Nathanael,\nJozabed, and Elasa.\n\n10:23. And of the sons of the Levites, Jozabed, and Semei, and Celaia,\nthe same is Calita, Phataia, Juda, and Eliezer.\n\n10:24. And of the singing men, Elisiab: and of the porters, Sellum, and\nTelem, and Uri.\n\n10:25. And of Israel, of the sons of Pharos, Remeia, and Jezia, and\nMelchia, and Miamin, and Eliezer, and Melchia, and Banea.\n\n10:26. And of the sons of Elam, Mathania, Zacharias, and Jehiel, and\nAbdi, and Jerimoth, and Elia.\n\n10:27. And of the sons of Zethua, Elioenai, Eliasib, Mathania, Jerimuth,\nand Zabad, and Aziaza.\n\n10:28. And of the sons of Babai, Johanan, Hanania, Zabbai, Athalai:\n\n10:29. And of the sons of Bani, Mosollam, and Melluch, and Adaia, Jasub,\nand Saal, and Ramoth.\n\n10:30. And of the sons of Phahath, Moab, Edna, and Chalal, Banaias, and\nMaasias, Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.\n\n10:31. And of the sons of Herem, Eliezer, Josue, Melchias, Semeias,\nSimeon,\n\n10:32. Benjamin, Maloch, Samarias.\n\n10:33. And of the sons of Hasom, Mathanai, Mathatha, Zabad, Eliphelet,\nJermai, Manasse, Semei.\n\n10:34. Of the sons of Bani, Maaddi, Amram, and Uel,\n\n10:35. Baneas, and Badaias, Cheliau,\n\n10:36. Vania, Marimuth, and Eliasib,\n\n10:37. Mathanias, Mathania, and Jasi,\n\n10:38. And Bani, and Bennui, Semei,\n\n10:39. And Salmias, and Nathan, and Adaias,\n\n10:40. And Mechnedebai, Sisai, Sarai,\n\n10:41. Ezrel, and Selemiau, Semeria,\n\n10:42. Sellum, Amaria, Joseph.\n\n10:43. Of the sons of Nebo, Jehiel, Mathathias, Zabad, Zabina, Jeddu,\nand Joel, and Banaia.\n\n10:44. All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them\nwomen that had borne children.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 15: 1 Esdras: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":8145}