Chapter 5

Those that returned from captivity of Babylon into Jerusalem and Jury, are recited. ℣.47. They restore God's service: ℣.66. but are hindered from building. AFTER these things were chosen to go up the Princes of towns by their houses, and tribes, and their wives, and their sons and daughters, & their men servants and women servants, and their cattle. ℣.1. Esd. ℣.2. .

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   After these things were chosen to go up the Princes of towns by their houses, and tribes, and their wives, and their sons and daughters, & their men servants and women servants, and their cattle.

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   And Darius the king sent together with them a thousand horsemen, till they conducted them to Jerusalem with peace, & with music, & with timbrels, and shalms:

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   and all the brethren were playing, and he made them go up together with them.

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   And these are the names of the men that went up by their towns according to tribes, & according to the portion of their principality.

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   Priests: The children of Phinees, the son of Aaron, Iesus the son of Iosedec, Ioacim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel of the house of David, of the progeny of Phares, of the tribe of Juda.

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   Who spake under Darius king of the Persians the marvelous words in the second year of his reign the first month Nisan.

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   And they are these, that of Jury came up from the captivity of the transmigration, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon transported into Babylon, and returned into Jerusalem. 1.

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   And every one sought a part of Jury according to his own city, they that came with Zorobabel, and Iesus, Nehemias, Areores, Elimeo, Emmanio, Mardocheo, Beelsuro, Mechpsatochor, Olioro, Emonia one of their Princes.

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   And the number of them of the same nation, of their rulers the children of Phares, two thousand an hundred seventy two:

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    The children of Ares, three thousand an hundred fifty seven:

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    The children of Phoemo, and hundred forty two: in the children of Iesus & Ioabes, a thousand three hundred two:

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    the children of Demu, two thousand four hundred seventy: the children of Choraba, two hundred five: the children of Banica, an hundred sixty eight,

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    the children of Bebech, four hundred three: the children of Archad, four hundred twenty seven:

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    the children of Cham, thirty seven: the children of Zoroar, two thousand sixty seven: the children of Adin, four hundred sixty one:

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    the children of Aderectes, an hundred eight: the children of Ciaso and Zelas an hundred seven: the children of Azoroc, four hundred thirty nine:

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    the children of Iedarbone, an hundred, thirty two: the children of Ananias, an hundred thirty: the children of Asoni, ninety:

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    the children of Marsar, four hundred twenty two: the children of Zabarus, ninety five: the children of

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    the children of Nepopas, fifty five: the children of Hechanatus, an hundred fifty eight: the children of Cebethamus, an hundred thirty two:

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    the children of Crearpatros, which are of Enocadie and Modia, four hundred twenty three: they of Gramas and Gabea, an hundred twenty one.

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    They of Besselon, and Ceagge, sixty five: they of Bastaro, an hundred twenty two:

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    they of Bechenobes, fifty five: the children of Liptis, an hundred fifty five: the children of Labonni, three hundred fifty seven:

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    the children of Sichem, three hundred seventy: the children of Suadon, & Cliomus, three hundred seventy eight:

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    the children of Ericus, two thousand an hundred forty five: the children of Anaas, three hundred seventy. The Priests:

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    the children of Ieddus the son of Euther, the son of Eliasib, three hundred seventy two: the children of Emerus, two hundred fifty two:

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    the children of Phasurius, three hundred fifty seven: the children of Caree, two hundred twenty seven.

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    The Levites: The children of Iesus in Caduhel, & Bamis, and Serebias, & Edias, seventy four, the whole number from the twelfth year, thirty thousand four hundred sixty two:

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    The sons, & daughters, & wives, the whole number, forty thousand two hundred forty two.

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    The children of the Priests, that sang in the temple: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty eight.

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    And the porters: the children of Esmeni, the children of Azer, the children of Amon, the children of Accuba, of Topa, the children of Tobi, all an hundred thirty nine.

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    Priests that served in the temple: the children of Sel, the children of Gaspha, the children of Tobloch, the children of Caria, the children of Su, the children of Hellu, the children of Lobana, the children of Armacha, the children of Accub, the children of Utha, the children of Cetha, the children of Aggab, the children of Obai, the children of Anani, the children of Canna, the children of Geddu,

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    the children of An, the children of Radin, the children of Desanon, the children of Nachoba, the children of Caseba, the children of Gaze, the children of Ozui, the children of Sinone, the children of Attre, the children of Hasten, the children of Asiana, the children of Manei, the children of Nasissim, the children of Acusu, the children of Agista, the children of Azui, the children of Favon, the children of Phasalon,

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    the children of Meedda, the children of Phusa, the children of Caree, the children of Burcus, the children of Saree, the children of Coesi, the children of Nasith, the children of Agisti, the children of Pedon.

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    Salomon his children, the children of Asophot, the children of Phasida, the children of Celi, the children of Dedon, the children of Gaddahel, the children of Sephegi,

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    the children of Aggia, the children of Sachareth, the children of Sabathen, the children of Caroneth, the children of Malsith, the children of Ama, the children of Sasus, the children of Addus, the children of Suba, the children of Eura, the children of Rahotis, the children of Phasphat, the children of Malmon.

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    All that served the sanctuary, and the servants of Salomon, four hundred eighty two.

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    These are the children that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa: the Princes of them, Carmelam, and Careth:

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    and they could not declare their cities, and their progenies, how they are of Israel. The children of Dalari, the children of Tubal, the children of Nechodaici,

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    of the Priests, that did the function of Priesthood: & there were not found the children of Obia, the children of Achisos, the children of Addin, who took a wife of the daughters of Pargeleu:

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    and they were called by his name, and the writing of the kindred of these was sought in the register, and it was not found, and they were forbid to do the function of Priesthood.

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    And Nehemias and Astharus said to them: Let not the holy things be participated, till there arise a high Priest learned for declaration and truth.

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    And all Israel was beside men servants, & women servants, forty two thousand three hundred forty.

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    Their men servants and women servants, seven thousand three hundred thirty seven. Singing men and singing women two hundred three score five.

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    Camels, four hundred thirty five. Horses, seven thousand thirty six. Mules, two hundred thousand forty five. Beasts under yoke, five thousand twenty five.

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    And of the rulers themselves by their villages, when they came into the temple of God, which was in Jerusalem, to renew and raise up the

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    and to be given into the temple to the sacred treasure of the works, of gold twelve thousand mnas, and five thousand mnas of silver, and stoles for Priests an hundred.

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    And the Priests and Levites, and they that came out of the people, dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the country, and the sacred singingmen, and porters, and all Israel in their countries.

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    And the seventh month being at hand, and when the children of Israel were every man in his own affairs, they came together with one mind into the court, that was before the east gate.

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    And Iesus the son of Iosedec, and his brethren the Priests: Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren standing up, prepared an altar,

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    that they might offer upon it holocausts, according to the things that are written in the book of Moyses the man of God.

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    And there assembled there of other nations of the land, and all the nations of the land erected the altar in his place, and they offered hosts, and morning holocausts to our Lord.

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    And they celebrated the feast of Tabernacles, and the solemn day, as it is commanded in the law: and sacrifices daily, as it behoved:

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    & after these they appointed oblations, and the hosts of the sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all the solemn sanctified days.

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    And as many as vowed to our Lord from the new moon of the seventh month, began to offer the hosts to God, and the temple of our Lord was not yet built.

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    And they gave money to the masons and workmen, and drink and victuals with joy.

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    And they gave carts to the Sidonians, & Tyrianes, that with them they should carry cedar beams from Libanus, & should make boats in the haven Ioppe, according to the decree that was written for them by Cyrus king of the Persians.

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    And in the second year coming into the temple of God in Jerusalem, in the second month began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Iosue the son of Iosedec, and their brethren, and the Priests and Levites, and all that were come from the captivity into Jerusalem.

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    and they founded the temple of God in the new moon of the second month of the second year, after that they came into Jury & Jerusalem.

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    And they appointed the Levites from twenty years, over the works of our Lord: and Iesus stood and his son, and the brethren, all Levites joining together, & executors of the law, doing the works in the house of our Lord.

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    And all the Priests stood, having stoles with trumpets:

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    and Levites the children of Asaph, having cymbals together praising our Lord, and blessing him according to David king of Israel.

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    And they sung a song to our Lord, because his sweetness and honour is for ever upon Israel.

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    And all the people sounded with trumpet, and cried out with a loud voice, praising our Lord in the raising up of the house of our Lord.

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    And there came of the Priests, & Levites, and presidents by their villages the more ancients, which had seen the old house:

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    and to the building of this with cry and great lamentation, and many with trumpets and great joy:

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    in so much that the people heard not the trumpets for the lamentation of the people. For the multitude was sounding with trumpets magnifically, so that it was heard far off.

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    And the enemies of the tribe of Juda, and Benjamin heard it, & they came to know what the voice of the trumpets was:

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    And they knew that they which were of the captivity do build a temple to our Lord the God of Israel.

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    And coming to Zorobabel & Iesus, the overseers of the villages, they said to them: We will build together with you.

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    For we have in like manner heard your Lord, & we walk like from the days of Asbazareth king of the Assyrians, who transported us hither.

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    And Zorobabel, & Iesus, & the Princes of the villages of Israel, said to them:

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    It is not for us and you to build the house of our God. For we alone will build to our Lord of Israel according as Cyrus the king of the Persians hath commanded.

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    And the nations of the land lying upon them that are in Jury, and lifting up the work of the building, and bringing ambushments, and peoples, prohibited them to build:

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    & practising assaults hindered them, that the building might not be finished all the time of the life of king Cyrus, and they deferred the building for two years until the reign of