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chapter 8
1
Now
these are the chiefs of families, and the genealogy of them, who came up with
me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
2 Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of
Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattus.
3 Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos,
Zacharias, and with him were numbered a hundred and fifty men.
4 Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of
Zareha, and with him two hundred men.
5 Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and
with him three hundred men.
6 Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and
with him fifty men.
7 Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and
with him seventy men.
8 Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael,
and with him eighty men.
9 Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and
with him two hundred and eighteen men.
10 Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and
with him a hundred and sixty men.
11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai:
and with him eight and twenty men.
12 Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and
with him a hundred and ten men.
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.
14 Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur, and with
them seventy men.
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.
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.
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.
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,
19 And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of
Merari, and his brethren, and his sons twenty.
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.
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.
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.
23 And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it
fell out prosperously unto us.
24 And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,
Sarabias, and Hasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,
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.
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,
27 And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and
two vessels of the best shining brass, beautiful as gold.
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.
29 Watch ye and beep 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.
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.
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.
32 And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there three
days.
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.
34 According to the number and weight of every thing:
and all the weight was written at that time.
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.
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.
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