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          DASV: Ezra 8    

1 These are the heads of their families, and this is the genealogy
of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of
Artaxerxes the king:
2 from the descendants of Phinehas, Gershom;
from the descendants of Ithamar, Daniel; from the descendants
of David, Hattush,
3 the son of Shecaniah;
from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him
were registered 150 men;
4 from the descendants of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah,
and with him 200 men;
5 from the descendants of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel,
and with him 300 men;
6 from the descendants of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan,
and with him 50 men;
7 from the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah,
and with him 70 men;
8 from the descendants of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael,
and with him 80 men;
9 from the descendants of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel,
and with him 218 men.
10 from the descendants of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah,
and with him 160 men;
11 from the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai,
and with him 28 men;
12 from the descendants of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan,
and with him 110 men;
13 from the descendants of Adonikam, who came later, and these
are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel and Shemaiah,
and with them 60 men.
14 from the descendants of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur,
and with them 70 men.

15 I gathered them together at the canal that runs to Ahava,
and we camped there three days. I reviewed the people and the
priests, and discovered there were no descendants of Levi.
16 So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib,
Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah and Meshullam, who were leaders
and also for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise.
17 I sent them to Iddo the leader in the place Casiphia. I told
them what they should say to Iddo, and his brothers the servants
of the temple at Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers
for the temple of our God.
18 Since the good hand of our God was on us, they brought us
Sherebiah, a man of discretion, from the descendants of Mahli,
the son of Levi, the son of Israel; along with his sons and
his brothers, 18 men;
19 and Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah from the descendants of
Merari, his brothers and their sons, 20 men;
20 besides 220 temple servants, whom David and the officials had
appointed to assist the Levites. All of them were mentioned by name.

21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the Ahava canal, that we might
humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey
for ourselves, our little ones and all our goods.
22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for a platoon of soldiers
and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on the way, because
we had told the king, "The hand of our God is gracious on all
those who seek him, but his power and his wrath is against all
those who forsake him."
23 So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and he answered
our prayer.
24 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah,
Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
25 and I weighed out to them the silver, gold and vessels, the
offering for the temple of our God, that the king, his advisers,
his princes and all Israel who were present there had offered.
26 I weighed into their hand 24 tons of silver, and 7,500 pounds
of silver vessels and 7,500 pounds of gold,
27 20 gold bowls, worth 1,000 gold coins, and two vessels of fine
bright bronze, as valuable as gold.
28 I said to them, "You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels
are holy. The silver and the gold are a freewill offering to
the LORD, the God of your forefathers.
29 Guard and protect them, until you weigh them before the chief
priests, Levites and the family leaders of Israel at Jerusalem,
in the chambers of the temple of the LORD."
30 So the priests and Levites received the silver, gold and the
vessels as they were weighed out, in order to bring them to
Jerusalem to the temple of our God.

31 Then we left from the Ahava canal on the twelfth day of the first
month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and
he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from bandits
by the way.
32 So we came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.
33 Then on the fourth day, the silver, gold and vessels were weighed
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; along
with Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui,
the Levites.
34 Everything was accounted for by number and weight, and all the
weight was recorded at that time.
35 The exiles who were returning from exile, offered burnt offerings
to the God of Israel, 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs,
12 male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering
to the LORD.
36 They delivered the king's edicts to the king's satraps, and to
the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River who then
helped support the people and the temple of God.

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