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Ezra 8 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Exiles Who Returned with Ezra

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 - Here is a list of the family leaders and the genealogies of those who came with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:2 - From the family of Phinehas: Gershom.
From the family of Ithamar: Daniel.
From the family of David: Hattush,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:3 - a descendant of Shecaniah.
From the family of Parosh: Zechariah and 150 other men were registered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:4 - From the family of Pahath-moab: Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah and 200 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:5 - From the family of Zattu[fn]: Shecaniah son of Jahaziel and 300 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:6 - From the family of Adin: Ebed son of Jonathan and 50 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:7 - From the family of Elam: Jeshaiah son of Athaliah and 70 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:8 - From the family of Shephatiah: Zebadiah son of Michael and 80 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:9 - From the family of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel and 218 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:10 - From the family of Bani[fn]: Shelomith son of Josiphiah and 160 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:11 - From the family of Bebai: Zechariah son of Bebai and 28 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:12 - From the family of Azgad: Johanan son of Hakkatan and 110 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:13 - From the family of Adonikam, who came later[fn]: Eliphelet, Jeuel, Shemaiah, and 60 other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:14 - From the family of Bigvai: Uthai, Zaccur,[fn] and 70 other men.
Ezra’s Journey to Jerusalem

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:15 - I assembled the exiles at the Ahava Canal, and we camped there for three days while I went over the lists of the people and the priests who had arrived. I found that not one Levite had volunteered to come along.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:16 - So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were leaders of the people. I also sent for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of discernment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:17 - I sent them to Iddo, the leader of the Levites at Casiphia, to ask him and his relatives and the Temple servants to send us ministers for the Temple of God at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:18 - Since the gracious hand of our God was on us, they sent us a man named Sherebiah, along with eighteen of his sons and brothers. He was a very astute man and a descendant of Mahli, who was a descendant of Levi son of Israel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:19 - They also sent Hashabiah, together with Jeshaiah from the descendants of Merari, and twenty of his sons and brothers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:20 - and 220 Temple servants. The Temple servants were assistants to the Levites—a group of Temple workers first instituted by King David and his officials. They were all listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 - And there by the Ahava Canal, I gave orders for all of us to fast and humble ourselves before our God. We prayed that he would give us a safe journey and protect us, our children, and our goods as we traveled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:22 - For I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen[fn] to accompany us and protect us from enemies along the way. After all, we had told the king, “Our God’s hand of protection is on all who worship him, but his fierce anger rages against those who abandon him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:23 - So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God would take care of us, and he heard our prayer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:24 - I appointed twelve leaders of the priests—Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten other priests—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:25 - to be in charge of transporting the silver, the gold, the gold bowls, and the other items that the king, his council, his officials, and all the people of Israel had presented for the Temple of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:26 - I weighed the treasure as I gave it to them and found the totals to be as follows:
24 tons[fn] of silver,
7,500 pounds[fn] of silver articles,
7,500 pounds of gold,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:27 - 20 gold bowls, equal in value to 1,000 gold coins,[fn]
2 fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:28 - And I said to these priests, “You and these treasures have been set apart as holy to the LORD. This silver and gold is a voluntary offering to the LORD, the God of our ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29 - Guard these treasures well until you present them to the leading priests, the Levites, and the leaders of Israel, who will weigh them at the storerooms of the LORD’s Temple in Jerusalem.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:30 - So the priests and the Levites accepted the task of transporting these treasures of silver and gold to the Temple of our God in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 - We broke camp at the Ahava Canal on April 19[fn] and started off to Jerusalem. And the gracious hand of our God protected us and saved us from enemies and bandits along the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:32 - So we arrived safely in Jerusalem, where we rested for three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:33 - On the fourth day after our arrival, the silver, gold, and other valuables were weighed at the Temple of our God and entrusted to Meremoth son of Uriah the priest and to Eleazar son of Phinehas, along with Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui—both of whom were Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:34 - Everything was accounted for by number and weight, and the total weight was officially recorded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:35 - Then the exiles who had come out of captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel. They presented twelve bulls for all the people of Israel, as well as ninety-six rams and seventy-seven male lambs. They also offered twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was given as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:36 - The king’s decrees were delivered to his highest officers and the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River,[fn] who then cooperated by supporting the people and the Temple of God.
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As in some Greek manuscripts (see also 1 Esdras 8:32); Hebrew lacks Zattu.
As in some Greek manuscripts (see also 1 Esdras 8:36); Hebrew lacks Bani.
Or who were the last of his family.
As in Greek and Syriac versions and an alternate reading of the Masoretic Text; the other alternate reads Zabbud.
Israel is the name that God gave to Jacob.
Or charioteers.
Hebrew 650 talents [22 metric tons].
Hebrew 100 talents [3,400 kilograms]; also in 8:26c.
Hebrew 1,000 darics, about 19 pounds or 8.6 kilograms in weight.
Hebrew on the twelfth day of the first month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This day was April 19, 458 B.C.; also see note on 6:15.
Hebrew the province beyond the river.
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