The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

The children of Zethua, eight hundred forty-five.

The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.

The children of Bannui, six hundred forty-eight.

The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.

The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.

The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-seven.

The children of Beguai, two thousand sixty-seven.

The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.

The children of Ater, children of Hezechias, ninety-eight.

The children of Hasem, three hundred twenty-eight.

The children of Besai, three hundred twenty-four.

The children of Hareph, a hundred and twelve.

The children of Gabaon, ninety-five.

The children of Bethlehem, and Netupha, a hundred eighty-eight.

The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.

The men of Bethazmoth, forty-two.

The men of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred forty- three.

The men of Rama and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.

The men of Bethel and Hai, a hundred twenty-three.

The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.

The men of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

The children of Harem, three hundred and twenty.

The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

The children of Lod, of Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.

The children of Senaa, three thousand nine hundred thirty.

The priests: the children of Idaia in the house of Josue, nine hundred and seventy-three.

The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two.

The children of Phashur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

The children of Arem, one thousand and seventeen. The Levites:

The children of Josue and Cedmihel, the sons

Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing men:

The children of Asaph, a hundred forty-eight.

The porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the children of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight.

The Nathinites: the children of Soha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tebbaoth,

The children of Ceros, the children os Siaa, the children of Phadon, the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Selmai,

The children of Hanan, the children of Geddel, the children of Gaher,

The children of Raaia, the children of Rasin, the children of Necoda,

The children of Gezem, the children of Asa, the children of Phasea,

The children of Besai, the children of Munim, the children of Nephussim,

The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of Harhur,

The children of Besloth, the children of Mahida, the children of Harsa,

The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of Thema,

The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,

The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sothai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,

The children of Jahala, the children of Darcon, the children of Jeddel,

The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of Phochereth, who was born of Sabaim, the son of Amon.

All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.

And these are they that came up from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Emmer: and could not shew the house of their fathers, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of Necoda, six hundred forty-two.

And of the priests, the children of Habia, the children of Accos, the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughters of Berzellai the Galaadite, and he was called by their name.

These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood.

And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holies of holies, until there stood up a priest learned and skilful.

All the multitude as it were one man, forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

Beside their men-servants and women-servants, who were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and singing women, two hundred forty-five.

Their horses, seven hundred thirty-six: their mules two hundred forty-five.

Their camels, four hundred thirty-five, their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work. Athersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty bowls, and five hundred and thirty garments for priests.

And some of the heads of families gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.

And that which the rest of the people gave, was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven garments for priests.

And the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singing men, and the rest of the common people, and the Nathinites, and all Israel dwelt in their cities.

And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men and women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the seventh month.

And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book.

And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made to speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania, and Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left, Phadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and Mosollam.

And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.

And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and adored God with their faces to the ground.

Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia, Maasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made silence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their place.

And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly to be understood: and they understood when it was read.

And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe, and the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy day to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.

And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold your peace, for the day is holy, and be not sorrowful.

So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had taught them.

And on the second day the chiefs of the families of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Esdras the scribe, that he should interpret to them the words of the law.

And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in tabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:

And that they should proclaim and publish the word in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the mount, and fetch branches of olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of thick trees, to make tabernacles, as it is written.

And the people went forth, and brought. And they made themselves tabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

And all the assembly of them that were returned from the captivity, made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the days of Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had not done so, until that day: and there was exceeding great joy.

And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in the eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.

And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they confessed, and adored the Lord their God.

And there stood up upon the step of the Levites, Josue, and Bani, and Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.

And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Oduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God from eternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with all blessing and praise.

Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are in it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.

Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham.

And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.

And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea.

And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day.

And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.

And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.

Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.

Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy servant.

And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments.

And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them.

Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:

Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.

And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst.

Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn.