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Isaiah 48.1: 48“Hear this, house of Jacob,

you who are called by the name of Israel,

and have come out of the waters of Judah.

You swear by Yahweh’s name,

and make mention of the God of Israel,

but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

Isaiah 48.2: 2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city,

and rely on the God of Israel;

Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Isaiah 48.3: 3 I have declared the former things from of old.

Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them.

I did them suddenly, and they happened.

Isaiah 48.4: 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate,

and your neck is an iron sinew,

and your brow bronze;

Isaiah 48.5: 5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old;

before it came to pass I showed it to you;

lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them.

My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’

Isaiah 48.6: 6 You have heard it.

Now see all this.

And you, won’t you declare it?

“I have shown you new things from this time,

even hidden things, which you have not known.

Isaiah 48.7: 7 They are created now, and not from of old.

Before today, you didn’t hear them,

lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

Isaiah 48.8: 8 Yes, you didn’t hear.

Yes, you didn’t know.

Yes, from of old your ear was not opened,

for I knew that you dealt very treacherously,

and were called a transgressor from the womb.

Isaiah 48.9: 9 For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,

and for my praise, I hold it back for you

so that I don’t cut you off.

Isaiah 48.10: 10 Behold, I have refined you,

but not as silver.

I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 48.11: 11 For my own sake,

for my own sake, I will do it;

for how would my name be profaned?

I will not give my glory to another.

Isaiah 48.12: 12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,

and Israel my called:

I am he.

I am the first.

I am also the last.

Isaiah 48.13: 13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,

and my right hand has spread out the heavens.

when I call to them, they stand up together.

Isaiah 48.14: 14 “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear!

Who among them has declared these things?

He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon,

and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 48.15: 15 I, even I, have spoken.

Yes, I have called him.

I have brought him

and he shall make his way prosperous.

Isaiah 48.16: 16 “Come near to me and hear this:

“From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;

from the time that it happened, I was there.”

Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me

with his Spirit.

Isaiah 48.17: 17 Yahweh,

your Redeemer,

the Holy One of Israel says:

“I am Yahweh your God,

who teaches you to profit,

who leads you by the way that you should go.

Isaiah 48.18: 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments!

Then your peace would have been like a river

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 48.19: 19 Your offspring also would have been as the sand

and the descendants of your body like its grains.

His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

Isaiah 48.20: 20 Leave Babylon!

Flee from the Chaldeans!

With a voice of singing announce this,

tell it even to the end of the earth:

say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Isaiah 48.21: 21 They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.

He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.

He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.

Isaiah 48.22: 22 “There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

Jeremiah 34.0:

Jeremiah 34.1: 34The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying:

Jeremiah 34.2: 2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 34.3: 3 You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you mouth to mouth. You will go to Babylon.”’

Jeremiah 34.4: 4 “Yet hear Yahweh’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah: Yahweh says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by the sword.

Jeremiah 34.5: 5 You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lament you, saying, “Ah Lord!” for I have spoken the word,’ says Yahweh.”

Jeremiah 34.6: 6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 34.7: 7 when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities.

Jeremiah 34.8: 8 The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;

Jeremiah 34.9: 9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

Jeremiah 34.10: 10 All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go;

Jeremiah 34.11: 11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Jeremiah 34.12: 12 Therefore Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Jeremiah 34.13: 13 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

Jeremiah 34.14: 14 At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you; but your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.

Jeremiah 34.15: 15 You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

Jeremiah 34.16: 16 but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’”

Jeremiah 34.17: 17 Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 34.18: 18 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:

Jeremiah 34.19: 19 the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;

Jeremiah 34.20: 20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 34.21: 21 “I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you.

Jeremiah 34.22: 22 Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

John 8.0:

John 8.1: 8but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

John 8.2: 2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

John 8.3: 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,

John 8.4: 4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

John 8.5: 5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.a What then do you say about her?”

John 8.6: 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.

But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

John 8.7: 7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

John 8.8: 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

John 8.9: 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

John 8.10: 10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”

John 8.11: 11 She said, “No one, Lord.”

Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”1

John 8.12: 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.b He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 8.13: 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

John 8.14: 14 Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

John 8.15: 15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

John 8.16: 16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

John 8.17: 17 It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.c

John 8.18: 18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

John 8.19: 19 They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?”

Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

John 8.20: 20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

John 8.21: 21 Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

John 8.22: 22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

John 8.23: 23 He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

John 8.24: 24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am2 he, you will die in your sins.”

John 8.25: 25 They said therefore to him, “Who are you?”

Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

John 8.26: 26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

John 8.27: 27 They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

John 8.28: 28 Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

John 8.29: 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

John 8.30: 30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

John 8.31: 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

John 8.32: 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” d

John 8.33: 33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

John 8.34: 34 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

John 8.35: 35 A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

John 8.36: 36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

John 8.37: 37 I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

John 8.38: 38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

John 8.39: 39 They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

John 8.40: 40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

John 8.41: 41 You do the works of your father.”

They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

John 8.42: 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

John 8.43: 43 Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

John 8.44: 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

John 8.45: 45 But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

John 8.46: 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

John 8.47: 47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

John 8.48: 48 Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

John 8.49: 49 Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.

John 8.50: 50 But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

John 8.51: 51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

John 8.52: 52 Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

John 8.53: 53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

John 8.54: 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

John 8.55: 55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

John 8.56: 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

John 8.57: 57 The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”

John 8.58: 58 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.e”

John 8.59: 59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

Romans 4.0:

Romans 4.1: 4What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

Romans 4.2: 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

Romans 4.3: 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”a

Romans 4.4: 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

Romans 4.5: 5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Romans 4.6: 6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

Romans 4.7: 7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,

whose sins are covered.

Romans 4.8: 8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.” b

Romans 4.9: 9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

Romans 4.10: 10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Romans 4.11: 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

Romans 4.12: 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

Romans 4.13: 13 For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 4.14: 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

Romans 4.15: 15 For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Romans 4.16: 16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Romans 4.17: 17 As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.”c This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Romans 4.18: 18 Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”d

Romans 4.19: 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Romans 4.20: 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

Romans 4.21: 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

Romans 4.22: 22 Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”e

Romans 4.23: 23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

Romans 4.24: 24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Romans 4.25: 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

Romans 14.0:

Romans 14.1: 14Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Romans 14.2: 2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Romans 14.3: 3 Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Romans 14.4: 4 Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

Romans 14.5: 5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Romans 14.6: 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

Romans 14.7: 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

Romans 14.8: 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Romans 14.9: 9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

Romans 14.10: 10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Romans 14.11: 11 For it is written,

“‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow.

Every tongue will confess to God.’”a

Romans 14.12: 12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

Romans 14.13: 13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Romans 14.14: 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Romans 14.15: 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Romans 14.16: 16 Then don’t let your good be slandered,

Romans 14.17: 17 for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14.18: 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Romans 14.19: 19 So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Romans 14.20: 20 Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Romans 14.21: 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Romans 14.22: 22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

Romans 14.23: 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Romans 14.24: 24 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,

Romans 14.25: 25 but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;

Romans 14.26: 26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.1

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1 Esdras (Greek) 8.1: 8a And after these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned, came Ezdras the son of Azaraias, the son of Zechrias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.2: 2 the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, 1 the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.3: 3 This Esdras went up from Babylon, as being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.4: 4 And the king did him honor: for he found grace in hid sight in all his requests.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.5: 5 There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and Levites, and holy singers, and gatekeepers, and 2 temple servants, to Jerusalem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.6: 6 in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon on the new moon of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them 3 for his sake.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.7: 7 For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgments.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.8: 8 Now the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, whereof this that follows is a copy;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.9: 9 King Artaxerxes to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.10: 10 Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites, 4 and of those within our realm, as are willing and desirous, should go with you to Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.11: 11 As many therefore as have a mind thereto, let them depart with you, as it has seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counselors;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.12: 12 that they may look to the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.13: 13 and carry the gifts to the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed; and that all the gold and silver that can be found in the country of Babylonia for the Lord in Jerusalem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.14: 14 with that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God that is at Jerusalem, be collected: even the gold and silver for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereto appertaining;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.15: 15 to the end that they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.16: 16 And whatever you and your kindred are minded to do with gold and silver, that perform, according to the will of your God.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.17: 17 And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.18: 18 and whatever thing else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.19: 19 And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatever Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it him with all diligence,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.20: 20 to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred 5 measures, and a hundred firkins6 of wine, and 7 salt in abundance.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.21: 21 Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.22: 22 I command you also, that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose anything upon them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.23: 23 And you, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those that know the law of your God; and those that know it not you shall teach.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.24: 24 And whoever shall transgress the law of your God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by 8 imprisonment.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.25: 25 Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.26: 26 and has honored me in the sight of the king, and his counselors, and all his friends and nobles.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.27: 27 Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and gathered together out of Israel men to go up with me.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.28: 28 And these are the chief according to their families and the several divisions thereof, that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artaxerxes:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.29: 29 of the sons of Phinees, Gerson: of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael: of the sons of David, 9 Attus 1 the son of Sechenias:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.30: 30 of the sons of Phoros, Zacharais; and with him were counted a hundred and fifty men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.31: 31 of the sons of Phaath Moab, Eliaonias the son of 2 Zaraias, and with him two hundred men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.32: 32 3 of the sons of Zathoes, Sechenias the son of Jezelus, and with him 4 three hundred men: of the sons ofAdin, Obeth the son of Jonathan, and with him two hundred and fifty men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.33: 33 of the sons of Elam, Jesias son of Athaliah. Gotholias, and with him seventy men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.34: 34 of the sons of Saphatias, Zebadiah. Zaraias son of Michael, and with him threescore and ten men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.35: 35 of the sons of Joab, Obadiah. Abadias son of Jehiel. Jezelus, and with him two hundred and twelve men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.36: 36 5 of the sons of Banias, Salimoth son of Josaphias, and with him a hundred and threescore men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.37: 37 of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.38: 38 of the sons of Azgad. Astath, Joannes son of Hakkatan Akatan, and with him a hundred and ten men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.39: 39 of the sons of Adonikam, the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeuel, and Shemaiah. Samaias, and with them seventy men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.40: 40 of the sons of Bigvai. Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.41: 41 And I gathered them together to the river called Theras; and there we pitched our tents three days, and I surveyed them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.42: 42 But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.43: 43 then sent I to Eleazar, and Ariel Iduel, and Maasmas,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.44: 44 and Elnathan, and Samaias, and Jarib Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.45: 45 And I bade those who they should go to Iddo Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of Casiphia, the treasury:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.46: 46 and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, and to his kindred, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of our Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.47: 47 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us 6 men of understanding of the sons of 7 Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, 8 Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.48: 48 and 9 Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.49: 49 and of the temple-servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple-servants, the catalogue of all their names was showed.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.50: 50 And there I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and cattle that were with us:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.51: 51 for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for protection against our adversaries.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.52: 52 For we had said to the king, that the power of our Lord would be with those who seek him, to support them in all ways.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.53: 53 And again we implored our lord as touching these things, and found him favorable to us.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.54: 54 Then I separated twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, 1 Eserebias, and Assamias, and ten men of their kindred with them:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.55: 55 and I weighed them the silver, and the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his counselors, and the nobles, and all Israel, had given.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.56: 56 And when I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.57: 57 and twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.58: 58 And I said to them, Both you° are holy to the Lord, 2 and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.59: 59 Watch you°, and keep them till you° deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.60: 60 So the priests and the Levites, who received the silver and the gold and the vessels which were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.61: 61 And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, until we came to Jerusalem, by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us: and the Lord delivered us from assault by the way, from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.62: 62 And when we had been there three days, the silver and gold was weighed and delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day to 3 Marmoth the priest the son of 4 Urias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.63: 63 And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabdus the son of Jesus and 5 Moeth the son of Sabannus, the Levites: all was delivered them by number and weight.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.64: 64 And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.65: 65 Moreover those who were come out of the captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.66: 66 threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.67: 67 And they delivered the king’s commandments to the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.68: 68 Now when these things were done, the principal men came to me, and said,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.69: 69 The nation of Israel, and the princes, and the priests and the Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, 6 nor the uncleannesses of the Gentiles, to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pherezites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.70: 70 For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.71: 71 And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and full of heaviness.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.72: 72 So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.73: 73 Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.74: 74 I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.75: 75 for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.76: 76 ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.77: 77 And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.78: 78 And now in some measure has mercy been showed to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.79: 79 and to discover to us a light in the house of the Lord our God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.80: 80 Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.81: 81 and glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, to give us a sure dwelling in Jewry and Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.82: 82 And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.83: 83 That the land, which you° enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.84: 84 Therefore now shall you° not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you° take their daughters to your sons.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.85: 85 Neither shall you° seek to have peace with them forever, that you° may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you° may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.86: 86 And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins: for you, O Lord, did make our sins light,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.87: 87 and did give to us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.88: 88 7 You was not angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.89: 89 O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.90: 90 Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.91: 91 b And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.92: 92 Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel 8 aloft.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.93: 93 Let’s make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the strangers, with their children,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.94: 94 like as seems good to you, and to as many as do obey the Law of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.95: 95 Arise, and put in execution: for to you does this matter appertain, and we will be with you to do valiantly.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.96: 96 So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and so they sware.