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Ezra 8 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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People Who Went with Ezra

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Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households and the genealogical enrollment of those who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of King Artaxerxes:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:2 - of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:3 - of the sons of Shecaniah who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him 150 males who were in the genealogical list;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:4 - of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah and two hundred males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:5 - of the sons of [fn]Zattu, Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel and three hundred males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:6 - and of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan and fifty males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:7 - and of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah and seventy males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:8 - and of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael and eighty males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:9 - of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel and 218 males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:10 - and of the sons of [fn]Bani, Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah and 160 males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:11 - and of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai and twenty-eight males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:12 - and of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan and 110 males with him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:13 - and of the sons of Adonikam, the last ones, these being their names: Eliphelet, [fn]Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and sixty males with them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:14 - and of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and [fn]Zabbud, and seventy males with [fn]them.

Ezra Sends for Levites

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Now I assembled them at the river that runs to Ahava, where we camped for three days; and when I paid close attention to the people and the priests, I did not find any Levites there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:16 - So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, [fn]leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, teachers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:17 - And I sent them to Iddo the [fn]leading man at the place called Casiphia; and I [fn]told them what to say to [fn]Iddo and his brothers, the temple servants at the place Casiphia, that is, to bring ministers to us for the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:18 - And as the good hand of our God was upon us, they brought us a man of insight from the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and brothers, eighteen men;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:19 - and Hashabiah and [fn]Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, twenty men;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:20 - and 220 of the temple servants, whom David and the officials had provided for the service of the Levites, all of them designated by name.

Protection of God Invoked

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Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a [fn]safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:22 - For I was ashamed to request from the king troops and horsemen to [fn]protect us from the enemy on the way, because we had said to the king, “The hand of our God is [fn]favorably disposed to all who seek Him, but His power and His anger are against all those who abandon Him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:23 - So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He [fn]listened to our pleading.

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Then I selected twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and with them ten of their brothers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the utensils, the offering for the house of our God which the king, his counselors, his officials, and all Israel who were present there had contributed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:26 - So I weighed into their hands [fn]650 talents of silver, and silver utensils worth [fn]a hundred talents, and a hundred gold talents,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:27 - and twenty gold bowls worth a thousand [fn]darics, and two utensils of fine shiny bronze, precious as gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:28 - Then I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the utensils are holy; and the silver and the gold are a [fn]voluntary offering to the LORD God of your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29 - “Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the leading priests, the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers’ households of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:30 - So the priests and the Levites accepted the weight of silver and gold and the utensils, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

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Then we journeyed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and He rescued us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushes by the road.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:32 - So we came to Jerusalem and remained there for three days.

Treasure Placed in the Temple

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33 - And on the fourth day the silver, the gold, and the utensils were weighed out in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:34 - A notation was made for everything by number and weight, and all the weight was recorded at that time.

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The exiles who had come from the captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, twelve male goats for a sin offering, all as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:36 - Then they delivered the king’s edicts to the king’s satraps and the governors in the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, and they supported the people and the house of God.
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NASB20 Footnotes
As in LXX; MT omits Zattu
As in LXX; MT omits Bani
Or Jeuel
Or Zakkur
Or him
Lit heads
Lit head
Lit put words in their mouth to say
As in LXX; MT Iddo his brother
As in LXX; MT with him Jeshaiah
Lit smooth way
Lit help
Lit upon all...for good
Lit was entreated by us
About 24 tons or 22 metric tons
About 3.75 tons or 3.4 metric tons
A coin weighing about 0.25 oz. or 7 gm
Or freewill offering
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Ezra Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

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