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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS
+
+This Book taketh its name from the writer: who was a holy priest, and
+doctor of the law. He is called by the Hebrews, Ezra.
+
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 1
+
+Cyrus king of Persia releaseth God's people from their captivity, with
+license to return and build the temple in Jerusalem: and restoreth the
+holy vessels which Nabuchodonosor had taken from thence.
+
+1:1. In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of
+the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred
+up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation
+throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:
+
+1:2. Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven
+hath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me
+to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.
+
+1:3. Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him. Let
+him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the
+Lord the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem.
+
+1:4. And let all the rest in all places wheresoever they dwell, help him
+every man from his place, with silver and gold, and goods, and cattle,
+besides that which they offer freely to the temple of God, which is in
+Jerusalem.
+
+1:5. Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and the
+priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up, to
+go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.
+
+1:6. And all they that were round about, helped their hands with vessels
+of silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with furniture,
+besides what they had offered on their own accord.
+
+1:7. And king Cyrus brought forth vessels of the temple of the Lord,
+which Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusalem, and had put them in the
+temple of his god.
+
+1:8. Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of
+Mithridates the son of Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar the
+prince of Juda.
+
+1:9. And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand
+bowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,
+
+1:10. Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred and ten: other vessels
+a thousand.
+
+1:11. All the vessels of gold and silver, five thousand four hundred:
+all these Sassabasar brought with them that came up from the captivity
+of Babylon to Jerusalem.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 2
+
+The number of them that returned to Judea: their oblations.
+
+2:1. Now these are the children of the province, that went out of the
+captivity, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away to
+Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Juda, every man to his city.
+
+2:2. Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemia, Saraia, Rahelaia,
+Mardochai, Belsan, Mesphar, Beguai, Rehum, Baana. The number of the men
+of the people of Israel:
+
+2:3. The children of Pharos two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
+
+2:4. The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.
+
+2:5. The children of Area, seven hundred seventy-five.
+
+2:6. The children of Phahath Moab, of the children of Josue: Joab, Two
+thousand eight hundred twelve.
+
+2:7. The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four.
+
+2:8. The children of Zethua, nine hundred forty-five.
+
+2:9. The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.
+
+2:10. The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
+
+2:11. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
+
+2:12. The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty-two.
+
+2:13. The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-six.
+
+2:14. The children of Beguai, two thousand fifty-six.
+
+2:15. The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.
+
+2:16. The children of Ather, who were of Ezechias, ninety-eight.
+
+2:17. The children of Besai, three hundred and twenty-three.
+
+2:18. The children of Jora, a hundred and twelve.
+
+2:19. The children of Hasum, two hundred twenty-three.
+
+2:20. The children of Gebbar, ninety-five.
+
+2:21. The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three.
+
+2:22. The men of Netupha, fifty-six.
+
+2:23. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.
+
+2:24. The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
+
+2:25. The children of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred
+forty-three.
+
+2:26. The children of Rama and Gabaa, six hundred twenty-one.
+
+2:27. The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.
+
+2:28. The men of Bethel and Hai, two hundred twenty-three.
+
+2:29. The children of Nebo, fifty-two.
+
+2:30. The children of Megbis, a hundred fifty-six.
+
+2:31. The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-five.
+
+2:32. The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
+
+2:33. The children of Lod, Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
+
+2:34. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
+
+2:35. The children of Senaa, three thousand six hundred thirty.
+
+2:36. The priests: the children of Jadaia of the house of Josue, nine
+hundred seventy-three.
+
+2:37. The children of Emmer, a thousand fifty-two.
+
+2:38. The children of Pheshur, a thousand two hundred forty-seven.
+
+2:39. The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
+
+2:40. The Levites: the children of Josue and of Cedmihel, the children
+of Odovia, seventy-four.
+
+2:41. The singing men: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty-eight.
+
+2:42. The children of the porters: the children of Sellum, the children
+of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of
+Hatita, the children of Sobai: in all a hundred thirty-nine.
+
+2:43. The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the children of Hasupha, the
+children of Tabbaoth,
+
+2:44. The children of Ceros, the children of Sia, the children of
+Phadon,
+
+2:45. The children of Lebana, the children of Hegaba, the children of
+Accub,
+
+2:46. The children of Hagab, the children of Semlai, the children of
+Hanan,
+
+2:47. The children of Gaddel, the children of Gaher, the children of
+Raaia,
+
+2:48. The children of Rasin, the children of Necoda, the children of
+Gazam,
+
+2:49. The children of Asa, the children of Phasea, the children of
+Besee,
+
+2:50. The children of Asena, the children of Munim, the children of
+Nephusim,
+
+2:51. The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of
+Harhur,
+
+2:52. The children of Besluth, the children of Mahida, the children of
+Harsa,
+
+2:53. The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of
+Thema,
+
+2:54. The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,
+
+2:55. The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sotai,
+the children of Sopheret, the children of Pharuda,
+
+2:56. The children of Jala, the children of Dercon, the children of
+Geddel,
+
+2:57. The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of
+Phochereth, which were of Asebaim, the children of Ami,
+
+2:58. All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon,
+three hundred ninety-two.
+
+2:59. And these are they that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub,
+and Adon, and Emer. And they could not shew the house of their fathers
+and their seed, whether they were of Israel.
+
+2:60. The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of
+Necoda, six hundred fifty-two.
+
+2:61. And of the children of the priests: the children of Hobia, the
+children of Accos, the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the
+daughters of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and was called by their name:
+
+2:62. These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not, and
+they were cast out of the priesthood.
+
+2:63. And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy
+of holies, till there arose a priest learned and perfect.
+
+2:64. All the multitudes as one man, were forty-two thousand three
+hundred and sixty:
+
+Forty-two thousand, etc... Those who are reckoned up above of the tribes
+of Juda, Benjamin, and Levi, fall short of this number.  The rest, who
+must be taken in to make up the whole sum, were of the other tribes.
+
+2:65. Besides their menservants, and womenservants, of whom there were
+seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and among them singing
+men, and singing women two hundred.
+
+2:66. Their horses seven hundred thirty-six, their mules two hundred
+forty-five,
+
+2:67. Their camels four hundred thirty-five, their asses six thousand
+seven hundred and twenty.
+
+2:68. And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple
+of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the
+Lord to build it in its place.
+
+2:69. According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the
+work, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of silver,
+and a hundred garments for the priests.
+
+2:70. So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the
+singing men, and the porters, and the Nathinites dwelt in their cities,
+and all Israel in their cities.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 3
+
+An altar is built for sacrifice, the feast of tabernacles is solemnly
+celebrated, and the foundations of the temple are laid.
+
+3:1. And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were
+in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man
+to Jerusalem.
+
+3:2. And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests,
+and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the
+altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as
+it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
+
+Josue... or Jesus (Jeshua) the son of Josedec; he was the high priest,
+at that time.
+
+3:3. And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of
+the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a
+holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.
+
+3:4. And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and
+offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment,
+the duty of the day in its day.
+
+3:5. And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and
+on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in
+which a freewill offering was made to the Lord.
+
+3:6. From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer
+holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
+
+3:7. And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and
+drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from
+Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of
+the Persians had given them.
+
+3:8. And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in
+Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue
+the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the
+Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began,
+and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten
+forward the work of the Lord.
+
+3:9. Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons,
+and the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the
+work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and
+their brethren the Levites.
+
+3:10. And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the
+Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the
+Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of
+David king of Israel.
+
+3:11. And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he
+is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the
+people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the
+foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.
+
+3:12. But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the
+fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had
+the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice:
+and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
+
+3:13. So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy,
+from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the
+people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 4
+
+The Samaritans by their letter to the king hinder the building.
+
+4:1. Now the enemies of Juda and Benjamin heard that the children of the
+captivity were building a temple to the Lord the God of Israel.
+
+4:2. And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said
+to them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold we
+have sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of Assyria,
+who brought us hither.
+
+4:3. But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest of the chief of the fathers
+of Israel said to them: You have nothing to do with us to build a house
+to our God, but we ourselves alone will build to the Lord our God, as
+Cyrus king of the Persians hath commanded us.
+
+4:4. Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of
+Juda, and troubled them in building.
+
+4:5. And they hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their design
+all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius
+king of the Persians.
+
+4:6. And in the reign of Assuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they
+wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.
+
+Assuerus... Otherwise called Cambyses the son and successor of Cyrus. He
+is also in the following verse named Artaxerxes, a name common to almost
+all the kings of Persia.
+
+4:7. And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam, Mithridates, and Thabeel,
+and the rest that were in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the
+Persians: and the letter of accusation was written in Syrian, and was
+read in the Syrian tongue.
+
+4:8. Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe wrote a letter from Jerusalem
+to king Artaxerxes, in this manner:
+
+4:9. Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe and the rest of their
+counsellors, the Dinites, and the Apharsathacites, the Therphalites, the
+Apharsites, the Erchuites, the Babylonians, the Susanechites, the
+Dievites, and the Elamites,
+
+4:10. And the rest of the nations, whom the great and glorious Asenaphar
+brought over: and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria and in the rest
+of the countries of this side of the river in peace.
+
+4:11. (This is the copy of the letter, which they sent to him:) To
+Artaxerxes the king, thy servants, the men that are on this side of the
+river, send greeting.
+
+4:12. Be it known to the king, that the Jews, who came up from thee to
+us, are come to Jerusalem a rebellious and wicked city, which they are
+building, setting up the ramparts thereof and repairing the walls.
+
+4:13. And now be it known to the king, that if this city be built up,
+and the walls thereof repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor
+yearly revenues, and this loss will fall upon the kings.
+
+4:14. But we remembering the salt that we have eaten in the palace, and
+because we count it a crime to see the king wronged, have therefore sent
+and certified the king,
+
+4:15. That search may be made in the books of the histories of thy
+fathers, and thou shalt find written in the records: and shalt know that
+this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to the kings and provinces,
+and that wars were raised therein of old time: for which cause also the
+city was destroyed.
+
+4:16. We certify the king, that if this city be built, and the walls
+thereof repaired, thou shalt have no possession on this side of the
+river.
+
+4:17. The king sent word to Reum Beelteem and Samsai the scribe, and to
+the rest that were in their council, inhabitants of Samaria, and to the
+rest beyond the river, sending greeting and peace.
+
+4:18. The accusation, which you have sent to us, hath been plainly read
+before me,
+
+4:19. And I commanded: and search hath been made, and it is found, that
+this city of old time hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and
+wars have been raised therein.
+
+4:20. For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had
+dominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have
+received tribute, and toll and revenues.
+
+4:21. Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city
+be not built, till further orders be given by me.
+
+4:22. See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little
+and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.
+
+4:23. Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum
+Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went up
+in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.
+
+4:24. Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was
+interrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius king
+of the Persians.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 5
+
+By the exhortation of Aggeus, and Zacharias, the people proceed in
+building the temple. Which their enemies strive in vain to hinder.
+
+5:1. Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied
+to the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of
+Israel.
+
+5:2. Then rose up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of
+Josedec, and began to build the temple of God in Jerusalem, and with
+them were the prophets of God helping them.
+
+5:3. And at the same time came to them Thathanai, who was governor
+beyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and their counsellors: and said thus
+to them: Who hath given you counsel to build this house, and to repair
+the walls thereof?
+
+5:4. In answer to which we gave them the names of the men who were the
+promoters of that building.
+
+5:5. But the eye of their God was upon the ancients of the Jews, and
+they could not hinder them. And it was agreed that the matter should be
+referred to Darius, and then they should give satisfaction concerning
+that accusation.
+
+5:6. The copy of the letter that Thathanai governor of the country
+beyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors the
+Arphasachites, who dwelt beyond the river, sent to Darius the king.
+
+5:7. The letter which they sent him, was written thus: To Darius the
+king all peace.
+
+5:8. Be it known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to
+the house of the great God, which they are building with unpolished
+stones, and timber is laid in the walls: and this work is carried on
+diligently and advanceth in their hands.
+
+5:9. And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given
+you authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?
+
+5:10. We asked also of them their names, that we might give thee notice:
+and we have written the names of the men that are the chief among them.
+
+5:11. And they answered us in these words, saying: We are the servants
+of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building a temple that was
+built these many years ago, and which a great king of Israel built and
+set up.
+
+5:12. But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to
+wrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of
+Babylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the
+people to Babylon.
+
+5:13. But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus set
+forth a decree, that this house of God should be built.
+
+5:14. And the vessels also of gold and silver of the temple of God,
+which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem,
+and had brought them to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus brought out of
+the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one Sassabasar, whom
+also he appointed governor,
+
+5:15. And said to him: Take these vessels, and go, and put them in the
+temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its
+place.
+
+5:16. Then came this same Sassabasar, and laid the foundations of the
+temple of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is in
+building, and is not yet finished.
+
+5:17. Now therefore if it seem good to the king, let him search in the
+king's library, which is in Babylon, whether it hath been decreed by
+Cyrus the king, that the house of God in Jerusalem should be built, and
+let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 6
+
+King Darius favoureth the building and contributeth to it.
+
+6:1. Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of
+the books that were laid up in Babylon,
+
+6:2. And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province
+of Media, a book in which this record was written.
+
+6:3. In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that
+the house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place
+where they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that
+may support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of
+threescore cubits,
+
+6:4. Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the
+charges shall be given out of the king's house.
+
+6:5. And also let the golden and silver vessels of the temple of God,
+which Nabuchodonosor took out of the temple of Jerusalem, and brought to
+Babylon, be restored, and carried back to the temple of Jerusalem to
+their place, which also were placed in the temple of God.
+
+6:6. Now therefore Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river,
+Stharbuzanai, and your counsellors the Apharsachites, who are beyond the
+river, depart far from them,
+
+6:7. And let that temple of God be built by the governor of the Jews,
+and by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in its
+place.
+
+6:8. I also have commanded what must be done by those ancients of the
+Jews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the king's
+chest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond
+the river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work
+be hindered.
+
+6:9. And if it shall be necessary, let calves also, and lambs, and kids,
+for holocausts to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil,
+according to the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem, be given
+them day by day, that there be no complaint in any thing.
+
+6:10. And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for
+the life of the king, and of his children.
+
+6:11. And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this
+commandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be
+nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.
+
+6:12. And may the God, that hath caused his name to dwell there, destroy
+all kingdoms, and the people that shall put out their hand to resist,
+and to destroy the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. I Darius have
+made the decree, which I will have diligently complied with.
+
+6:13. So then Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river, and
+Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors diligently executed what Darius the
+king had commanded.
+
+6:14. And the ancients of the Jews built, and prospered according to the
+prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo: and
+they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel, and by
+the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of the
+Persians.
+
+6:15. And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of
+the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king
+Darius.
+
+6:16. And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the
+rest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of the house
+of God with joy.
+
+6:17. And they offered at the dedication of the house of God, a hundred
+calves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin offering for
+all Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of
+Israel.
+
+6:18. And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in
+their courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in
+the book of Moses.
+
+6:19. And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on the
+fourteenth day of the first month.
+
+6:20. For all the priests and the Levites were purified as one man: all
+were clean to kill the phase for all the children of the captivity, and
+for their brethren the priests, and themselves.
+
+6:21. And the children of Israel that were returned from captivity, and
+all that had separated themselves from the filthiness of the nations of
+the earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat.
+
+6:22. And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy,
+for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king
+of Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the
+house of the Lord the God of Israel.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 7
+
+Esdras goeth up to Jerusalem to teach, and assist the people, with a
+gracious decree of Artaxerxes.
+
+7:1. Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the
+Persians, Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of
+Helcias,
+
+7:2. The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob,
+
+7:3. The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth,
+
+7:4. The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci,
+
+7:5. The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son
+of Aaron, the priest from the beginning.
+
+7:6. This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the
+law of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king
+granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God
+upon him.
+
+7:7. And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
+children of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the
+singing men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in
+the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
+
+7:8. And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year
+of the king.
+
+7:9. For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from
+Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem
+according to the good hand of his God upon him.
+
+7:10. For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and
+to do and to teach in Israel the commandments and judgment.
+
+7:11. And this is the copy of the letter of the edict, which king
+Artaxerxes gave to Esdras the priest, the scribe instructed in the words
+and commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies in Israel.
+
+7:12. Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned
+scribe of the law of the God of heaven, greeting.
+
+7:13. It is decreed by me, that all they of the people of Israel, and of
+the priests and of the Levites in my realm, that are minded to go into
+Jerusalem, should go with thee.
+
+7:14. For thou art sent from before the king, and his seven counsellors,
+to visit Judea and Jerusalem according to the law of thy God, which is
+in thy hand.
+
+7:15. And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his
+counsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose tabernacle
+is in Jerusalem.
+
+7:16. And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the
+province of Babylon, and that the people is willing to offer, and that
+the priests shall offer of their own accord to the house of their God,
+which is in Jerusalem,
+
+7:17. Take freely, and buy diligently with this money, calves, rams,
+lambs, with the sacrifices and libations of them, and offer them upon
+the altar of the temple of your God, that is in Jerusalem.
+
+7:18. And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing
+with the rest of the silver and gold, do it according to the will of
+your God.
+
+7:19. The vessels also, that are given thee for the sacrifice of the
+house of thy God, deliver thou in the sight of God in Jerusalem.
+
+7:20. And whatsoever more there shall be need of for the house of thy
+God, how much soever thou shalt have occasion to spend, it shall be
+given out of the treasury, and the king's exchequer, and by me.
+
+7:21. I Artaxerxes the king have ordered and decreed to all the keepers
+of the public chest, that are beyond the river, that whatsoever Esdras
+the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of
+you, you give it without delay,
+
+7:22. Unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred cores of
+wheat, and unto a hundred bates of wine, and unto a hundred bates of
+oil, and salt without measure.
+
+7:23. All that belongeth to the rites of the God of heaven, let it be
+given diligently in the house of the God of heaven: lest his wrath
+should be enkindled against the realm of the king, and of his sons.
+
+7:24. We give you also to understand concerning all the priests, and the
+Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinites, and
+ministers of the house of this God, that you have no authority to impose
+toll or tribute, or custom upon them.
+
+7:25. And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in
+thy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the people,
+that is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of thy God,
+yea and the ignorant teach ye freely.
+
+7:26. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the
+king diligently, judgment shall be executed upon him, either unto death,
+or unto banishment, or to the confiscation of goods, or at least to
+prison.
+
+7:27. Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in
+the king's heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in
+Jerusalem,
+
+7:28. And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his
+counsellors, and all the mighty princes of the king: and I being
+strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was upon me, gathered
+together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 8
+
+The companions of Esdras. The fast which he appointed. They bring the
+holy vessels into the temple.
+
+8:1. Now these are the chief of families, and the genealogy of them, who
+came up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
+
+8:2. Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of
+the sons of David, Hattus.
+
+8:3. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos, Zacharias, and with
+him were numbered a hundred and fifty men.
+
+8:4. Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of Zareha, and with
+him two hundred men.
+
+8:5. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and with him three
+hundred men.
+
+8:6. Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty
+men.
+
+8:7. Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and with him
+seventy men.
+
+8:8. Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael, and with him
+eighty men.
+
+8:9. Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two
+hundred and eighteen men.
+
+8:10. Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and with him a
+hundred and sixty men.
+
+8:11. Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him
+eight and twenty men.
+
+8:12. Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and with him a
+hundred and ten men.
+
+8:13. Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the last: and these are their
+names: Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Samaias, and with them sixty men.
+
+8:14. Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur, and with them seventy men.
+
+8:15. And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to
+Ahava, and we stayed there three days: and I sought among the people and
+among the priests for the sons of Levi, and found none there.
+
+8:16. So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Semeias, and Elnathan, and
+Jarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zacharias, and Mosollam,
+chief men: and Joiarib, and Elnathan, wise men.
+
+8:17. And I sent them to Eddo, who is chief in the place of Chasphia,
+and I put in their mouth the words that they should speak to Eddo, and
+his brethren the Nathinites in the place of Chasphia, that they should
+bring us ministers of the house of our God.
+
+8:18. And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a most
+learned man of the sons of Moholi the son of Levi the son of Israel, and
+Sarabias and his sons, and his brethren eighteen,
+
+8:19. And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of Merari, and his
+brethren, and his sons twenty.
+
+8:20. And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the
+service of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these
+were called by their names.
+
+8:21. And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might
+afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right
+way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.
+
+And I proclaimed a fast... It is not enough to part from Babylon, that
+is, figuratively from sin, but we must also do works of penance; and
+therefore Esdras here proclaimed an extraordinary fast to those that
+were come from captivity. This shews that fasting was commanded and
+practised from the earliest times.
+
+8:22. For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to
+defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king:
+The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his
+power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.
+
+8:23. And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out
+prosperously unto us.
+
+8:24. And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and
+Hasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,
+
+8:25. And I weighed unto them the silver and gold, and the vessels
+consecrated for the house of our God, which the king and his
+counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel, that were found had
+offered.
+
+8:26. And I weighed to their hands six hundred and fifty talents of
+silver, and a hundred vessels of silver, and a hundred talents of gold,
+
+8:27. And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of
+the best shining brass, beautiful as gold.
+
+8:28. And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the
+vessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to the
+Lord the God of our fathers.
+
+8:29. Watch ye and keep them, till you deliver them by weight before the
+chief of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the families
+of Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasure of the house of the Lord.
+
+8:30. And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver
+and gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of
+our God.
+
+8:31. Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the
+first month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and
+delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by
+the way.
+
+8:32. And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there three days.
+
+8:33. And on the fourth day the silver and the gold, and the vessels
+were weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of
+Urias the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with
+them Jozabad the son of Josue, and Noadaia the son of Benoi, Levites.
+
+8:34. According to the number and weight of everything: and all the
+weight was written at that time.
+
+8:35. Moreover the children of them that had been carried away that were
+come out of the captivity, offered holocausts to the God of Israel,
+twelve calves for all the people of Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-
+seven lambs, and twelve he goats for sin: all for a holocaust to the
+Lord.
+
+8:36. And they gave the king's edicts to the lords that were from the
+king's court, and the governors beyond the river, and they furthered the
+people and the house of God.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 9
+
+Esdras mourneth for the transgression of the people: his confession and
+prayer.
+
+9:1. And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me,
+saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not
+separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their
+abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the
+Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and
+the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites.
+
+This shows how sinful it is to intermarry with those that the Church
+forbids us, on account of the danger of perversion and falling off from
+the true faith.
+
+9:2. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their
+sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands.
+And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this
+transgression.
+
+9:3. And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and
+plucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.
+
+9:4. And there were assembled to me all that feared the God of Israel,
+because of the transgression of those that were come from the captivity,
+and I sat sorrowful, until the evening sacrifice.
+
+9:5. And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction, and
+having rent my mantle and my garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread
+out my hands to the Lord my God,
+
+9:6. And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to
+thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are
+grown up even unto heaven,
+
+9:7. From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned
+grievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and
+our priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the
+lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to
+confusion of face, as it is at this day.
+
+9:8. And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made
+before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his
+holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us
+a little life in our bondage.
+
+A pin... or nail, here signifies a small settlement or holding; which
+Esdras begs for, to preserve even a part of the people, who, by their
+great iniquity had incurred the anger of God.
+
+9:9. For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken
+us, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to
+give us life, and to set up the house of our God, and to rebuild the
+desolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.
+
+9:10. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have
+forsaken thy commandments,
+
+9:11. Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the
+prophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land,
+according to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with
+their abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their
+filth.
+
+9:12. Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, and take not
+their daughters for your sons, and seek not their peace, nor their
+prosperity for ever: that you may be strengthened, and may eat the good
+things of the land, and may have your children your heirs for ever.
+
+9:13. And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds, and
+our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity,
+and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,
+
+9:14. That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor join
+in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry with
+us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?
+
+9:15. O Lord God of Israel, thou art just: for we remain yet to be saved
+as at this day. Behold we are before thee in our sin, for there can be
+no standing before thee in this matter.
+
+1 Esdras Chapter 10
+
+Order is given for discharging strange women: the names of the guilty.
+
+10:1. Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and
+lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an
+exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people
+wept with much lamentation.
+
+10:2. And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and
+said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange
+wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in
+Israel concerning this,
+
+10:3. Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the
+wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord,
+and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be
+done according to the law.
+
+10:4. Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee:
+take courage, and do it.
+
+10:5. So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the
+Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this
+word, and they swore.
+
+10:6. And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the
+chamber of Johanan the son of Eliasib, and entered in thither: he ate no
+bread, and drank no water: for he mourned for the transgression of them
+that were come out of the captivity.
+
+10:7. And proclamation was made in Juda and Jerusalem to all the
+children of the captivity, that they should assemble together into
+Jerusalem.
+
+10:8. And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to
+the counsel of the princes and the ancients, all his substance should be
+taken away, and he should be cast out of the company of them that were
+returned from captivity.
+
+10:9. Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves
+together to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the
+twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the
+house of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain.
+
+10:10. And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have
+transgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel.
+
+10:11. And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and
+do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land,
+and from your strange wives.
+
+10:12. And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice:
+According to thy word unto us, so be it done.
+
+10:13. But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and we are
+not able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for
+we have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)
+
+10:14. Let rulers be appointed in all the multitude: and in all our
+cities, let them that have taken strange wives come at the times
+appointed, and with them the ancients and the judges of every city,
+until the wrath of our God be turned away from us for this sin.
+
+10:15. Then Jonathan the son of Azahel, and Jaasia the son of Thecua
+were appointed over this, and Mesollam and Sebethai, Levites, helped
+them:
+
+10:16. And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest,
+and the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and
+all by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth
+month to examine the matter.
+
+10:17. And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
+wives by the first day of the first month.
+
+10:18. And there were found among the sons of the priests that had taken
+strange wives: Of the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his
+brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia.
+
+10:19. And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer
+for their offence a ram of the flock.
+
+10:20. And of the sons of Emmer, Hanani, and Zebedia.
+
+10:21. And of the sons of Harim, Maasia, and Elia, and Semeia, and
+Jehiel, and Ozias.
+
+10:22. And of the sons of Pheshur, Elioenai, Maasia, Ismael, Nathanael,
+Jozabed, and Elasa.
+
+10:23. And of the sons of the Levites, Jozabed, and Semei, and Celaia,
+the same is Calita, Phataia, Juda, and Eliezer.
+
+10:24. And of the singing men, Elisiab: and of the porters, Sellum, and
+Telem, and Uri.
+
+10:25. And of Israel, of the sons of Pharos, Remeia, and Jezia, and
+Melchia, and Miamin, and Eliezer, and Melchia, and Banea.
+
+10:26. And of the sons of Elam, Mathania, Zacharias, and Jehiel, and
+Abdi, and Jerimoth, and Elia.
+
+10:27. And of the sons of Zethua, Elioenai, Eliasib, Mathania, Jerimuth,
+and Zabad, and Aziaza.
+
+10:28. And of the sons of Babai, Johanan, Hanania, Zabbai, Athalai:
+
+10:29. And of the sons of Bani, Mosollam, and Melluch, and Adaia, Jasub,
+and Saal, and Ramoth.
+
+10:30. And of the sons of Phahath, Moab, Edna, and Chalal, Banaias, and
+Maasias, Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.
+
+10:31. And of the sons of Herem, Eliezer, Josue, Melchias, Semeias,
+Simeon,
+
+10:32. Benjamin, Maloch, Samarias.
+
+10:33. And of the sons of Hasom, Mathanai, Mathatha, Zabad, Eliphelet,
+Jermai, Manasse, Semei.
+
+10:34. Of the sons of Bani, Maaddi, Amram, and Uel,
+
+10:35. Baneas, and Badaias, Cheliau,
+
+10:36. Vania, Marimuth, and Eliasib,
+
+10:37. Mathanias, Mathania, and Jasi,
+
+10:38. And Bani, and Bennui, Semei,
+
+10:39. And Salmias, and Nathan, and Adaias,
+
+10:40. And Mechnedebai, Sisai, Sarai,
+
+10:41. Ezrel, and Selemiau, Semeria,
+
+10:42. Sellum, Amaria, Joseph.
+
+10:43. Of the sons of Nebo, Jehiel, Mathathias, Zabad, Zabina, Jeddu,
+and Joel, and Banaia.
+
+10:44. All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them
+women that had borne children.
+
+
+
+
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