Ariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
Hebrew / Jewish
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)
2 Esdras
Megaphes, Mesullam, Ezir,
Mesozebel, Saduc, Jeddua,
Phaltia, Anan, Anæa,
Osee, Anania, Asub,
Aloes, Phalaï, Sobec,
Reum, Essabana, Maasia,
and Aia, Ænan, Enam,
Maluch, Eram, Baana.
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nathinim, and every one who drew off from the nations of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding,
were urgent with their brethren, and bound them under a curse, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given by the hand of Moses, the servant of God; to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord, and his judgments, and his ordinances;
and that we will not, [they said], give our daughters to the people of the land, nor will we take their daughters to our sons.
And [as for] the people of the land who bring wares and all [manner of] merchandise to sell on the sabbath-day, we [will] not buy of them on the sabbath or on the holy day: and we will leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
And we will impose ordinances upon ourselves, to levy on ourselves the third part of a didrachm yearly for the service of the house of our God;
the shewbread, and the continual meat-offering, and for the continual whole-burnt-offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moon, for the feasts, and for the holy things, and the sin-offerings, to make atonement for Israel, and for the works of the house of our God.
And we cast lots for the office of wood-bearing, [we] the priests, and the Levites, and the people, to bring [wood] into the house of our God, according to the house of our families, at certain set times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law:
and to bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of the fruit of every tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord:
the first-born of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the first-born of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, for the priests that minister in the house of our God.
And the first-fruits of our corn, and the fruit of every tree, of wine, and of oil, will we bring to the priests to the treasury of the house of God; and a tithe of our land to the Levites: for the Levites themselves shall receive tithes in all the cities of the land we cultivate.
And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the tithe of the Levite: and the Levites shall bring up the tenth part of [their] tithe to the house of our God, into the treasuries of the house of God.
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring into the treasuries the first-fruits of the corn, and wine, and oil; and there [are] the holy vessels, and the priests, and the ministers, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
And the chiefs of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: and the rest of the people cast lots, to bring one of [every] ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.
And the people blessed all the men that volunteered to dwell in Jerusalem.
Now these [are] the chiefs of the province who dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda; [every] man dwelt in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nathinim, and the children of the servants of Solomon.
And there dwelt in Jerusalem [some] of the children of Juda, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Juda; Athaia son of Azia, the son of Zacharia, the son of Samaria, the son of Saphatia, the son of Maleleel, and [some] of the sons of Phares;
and Maasia son of Baruch, son of Chalaza, son of Ozia, son of Adaia, son of Joarib, son of Zacharias, son of Seloni.
All the sons of Phares who dwelt in Jerusalem [were] four hundred and sixty-eight men of might.
And these [were] the children of Benjamin; Selo son of Mesulam, son of Joad, son of Phadaia, son of Coleia, son of Maasias, son of Ethiel, son of Jesia.
And after him Gebe, Seli, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
And Joel son of Zechri [was] overseer over them: and Juda son of Asana was second in the city.
Of the priests: both Jadia son of Joarib, and Jachin.
Saraia, son of Elchia, son of Mesulam, son of Sadduc, son of Marioth, son of Ætoth, was over the house of God.
And their brethren doing the work of the house were eight hundred and twenty-two: and Adaia son of Jeroam, son of Phalalia, son of Amasi, son of Zacharia, son of Phassur, son of Melchia,
and his brethren, chiefs of families, two hundred and forty-two: and Amasia son of Esdriel, son of Mesarimith, son of Emmer,
and his brethren, mighty men of war, a hundred and twenty-eight: and [their] overseer [was] Badiel son of [one of the] great men.
And of the Levites; Samaia, son of Esricam,
Matthanias son of Micha, and Jobeb son of Samui,
two hundred and eighty-four.
And the porters; Acub, Telamin, and their brethren, a hundred and seventy-two.
And the overseer of the Levites [was] the son of Bani, son of Ozi, the son of Asabia, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph the singers [some were] over the house of God,
for so was the king's commandment concerning them.
And Phathaia son of Baseza was in attendance on the king in every matter for the people,
and with regard to villages in their country district: and [some] of the children of Juda dwelt in Cariatharboc,
and in Jesu,
and in Bersabee:
and their villages [were] Lachis and her lands: and they pitched their tents in Beersabee.
And the children of Benjamin [dwelt] from Gabaa [to] Machmas.
And of the Levites there were divisions to Juda [and] to Benjamin.
Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zorobabel the son of Salathiel and Jesus: Saraia, Jeremia, Esdra,
Amaria, Maluch,
Sechenia.
These [were] the chiefs of the priests, and their brethren in the days of Jesus.
And the Levites [were], Jesus, Banui, Cadmiel, Sarabia, Jodae, Matthania: he [was] over the bands, and his brethren
[were appointed] to the daily courses.
And Jesus begot Joakim, and Joakim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib [begot] Jodae,
and Jodae begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jadu.
And in the days of Joakim, his brethren the priests and the heads of families [were, belonging] to Saraia, Amaria; to Jeremia, Anania;
to Esdra, Mesulam; to Amaria, Joanan;
to Amaluch, Jonathan; to Sechenia, Joseph;
to Are, Mannas; to Marioth, Elcaï;
to Adadai, Zacharia; to Ganathoth, Mesolam;
to Abia, Zechri; to Miamin, Maadai; to Pheleti, [one];
to Balgas, Samue; to Semia, Jonathan;
to Joarib, Matthanai; to Edio, Ozi;
to Salai, Callai; to Amec, Abed;
to Elkia, Asabias; to Jedeiu, Nathanael.
The Levites in the days of Eliasib, Joada, and Joa, and Joanan, and Idua, [were] recorded heads of families: also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
And the sons of Levi, heads of families, [were] written in the book of the chronicles, even to the days of Joanan son of Elisue.
And the heads of the Levites [were] Asabia, and Sarabia, and Jesu: and the sons of Cadmiel, and their brethren over against them, were to sing hymns of praise, according to the commandment of David the man of God, course by course.
When I gathered the porters,
[it was] in the days of Joakim son of Jesus, son of Josedec, and in the days of Neemia: and Esdras the priest [was] scribe.
And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep a feast of dedication and gladness with thanksgiving, and they sounded cymbals with songs, and [had] psalteries and harps.
And the sons of the singers were assembled both from the neighbourhood round about to Jerusalem, and from the villages,
and from the country: for the singers built themselves villages by Jerusalem.
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the wall.
And they brought up the princes of Juda on the wall, and they appointed two great [companies] for thanksgiving, and they passed on the right hand on the wall of the dung-gate.
And after them went Osaia, and half the princes of Juda,
and Azarias, and Esdras, and Mesollam,
and Juda, and Benjamin, and Samaias and Jeremia.
And [some] of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zacharias son of Jonathan, son of Samaias, son of Matthania, son of Michaia, son of Zacchur, son of Asaph:
and his brethren, Samaia, and Oziel, Gelol, Jama, Aia, Nathanael, and Juda, Anani, to praise with the hymns of David the man of God;
and Esdras the scribe [was] before them, at the gate, to praise before them, and they went up by the steps of the city of David, in the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water-gate
of Ephraim, and to the fish-gate, and by the tower of Anameel, and as far as the sheep-gate.
And the singers were heard, and were numbered.
And in that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced; for God had made them very joyful: and their wives and their children rejoiced: and the joy in Jerusalem was heard from afar off.
And in that day they appointed men over the treasuries, for the treasures, the first-fruits, and the tithes, and [for] the chiefs of the cities who were assembled among them, [to furnish] portions for the priests and Levites: for [there was] joy in Juda over the priests and over the Levites that waited.
And they kept the charges of their God, and the charges of the purification, and [ordered] the singers and the porters, according to the commandments of David and his son Solomon.
For in the days of David Asaph was originally first of the singers, and [they sang] hymns and praise to God.
And all Israel in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of Neemias, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, a daily rate: and consecrated them to the Levites: and the Levites consecrated them to the sons of Aaron.
In that day they read in the book of Moses in the ears of the people; and it was found written in it, that the Ammonites and Moabites should not enter into the congregation of God for ever;
because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them: but our God turned the curse into a blessing.
And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they were separated, [even] every alien in Israel.
And before this time Eliasib the priest dwelt in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobias;
and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first-fruits of the priests.
But in all this [time] I was not in Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Arthasastha king of Babylon I came to the king, and after a certain time I made my request of the king;
and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the mischief which Eliasib had done in the case of Tobias, in making for him a treasury in the court of the house of God.
And it appeared very evil to me: so I cast forth all the furniture of the house of Tobias from the treasury.
And I gave orders, and they purified the treasuries: and I restored thither the vessels of the house of God, [and] the offerings, and the frankincense.
And I understood that the portion of the Levites had not been given: and they had fled every one to his field, the Levites and the singers doing the work.
And I strove with the commanders, and said, Wherefore has the house of God been abandoned? and I assembled them, and set them in their place.