1 And in the first year of Koresh sovereign of Paras, that the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might be accomplished, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 stirred up the spirit of Koresh sovereign of Paras, to proclaim throughout all his reign, and also in writing, saying, 2 “Thus said Koresh sovereign Read more
1 And these are the sons of the province who came back from the captivity of the exiles, whom Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the sovereign of Baḇel had exiled to Baḇel, and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yahuḏah, each to his own city, 2 who came with Zerubbaḇel: Yĕshua, Neḥemyah, Serayah, Re’ĕlayah, Mordeḵai, Read more
1 Now when the seventh month came, and the children of Yisra’ĕl were in the cities, the people gathered as one man to Yerushalayim. 2 And Yĕshua son of Yotsaḏaq and his brothers the kohenim, and Zerubbaḇel son of She’alti’ĕl and his brothers, arose and built the altar of the Read more
1 And when the adversaries of Yahuḏah and Binyamin heard that the sons of the exile were building the Hĕyḵal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, 2 they came to Zerubbaḇel and the heads of the fathers and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your Elohim Read more
1 Then the neḇi’im, Ḥaggai the naḇi and Zeḵaryah son of Iddo, naḇu to the Yahuḏim who were in Yahuḏah and Yerushalayim, in the Name of the Elah of Yisra’ĕl upon them. 2 Then Zerubbaḇel son of She’alti’ĕl and Yĕshua son of Yotsaḏaq rose up and began to build the Read more
1 Then Dareyawesh the sovereign made a decree, and a search was made in the house of the books wherein also the treasures of Baḇel were kept. 2 And at Aḥmetha, in the palace which is in the province of Maḏai, a scroll was found, and this was written in Read more
1 And after these events, in the reign of Artaḥshashta sovereign of Paras, Ezra son of Serayah, son of Azaryahu, son of Ḥilqiyahu, 2 son of Shallum, son of Tsaḏoq, son of Aḥituḇ, 3 son of Amaryah, son of Azaryahu, son of Merayoth, 4 son of Zeraḥyah, son of Uzzi, Read more
1 These are the heads of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Baḇel, in the reign of Sovereign Artaḥshashta: 2 of the sons of Phineḥas, Gĕreshom; of the sons of Ithamar, Dani’ĕl; of the sons of Dawiḏ, Ḥattush; 3 of the Read more
1 And when these had been done, the leaders came to me, saying, “The people of Yisra’ĕl and the kohenim and the Lĕwites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, of the Kena’anites, the Ḥittites, the Perizzites, the Yeḇusites, the Ammonites, the Mo’aḇites, Read more
1 And while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the House of Elohim, a very large assembly – men and women and children – gathered unto him from Yisra’ĕl, for the people wept very bitterly. 2 And Sheḵanyah son of Yeḥi’ĕl, one of Read more