Verse 11
Ezra 7:11
Darby Translation
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And this is the copy of the letter that king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/זֶ֣ה פַּרְשֶׁ֣גֶן הַֽ/נִּשְׁתְּוָ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָתַן֙ הַ/מֶּ֣לֶךְ אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֔סְתְּא לְ/עֶזְרָ֥א הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן הַ/סֹּפֵ֑ר סֹפֵ֞ר דִּבְרֵ֧י מִצְוֺת יְהוָ֛ה וְ/חֻקָּ֖י/ו עַל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
English Translation
And this is the decree of the decree that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh and of His statutes upon Israel.
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Chapter 7 Context
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And after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son...
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the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
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the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
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the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
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the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest,
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this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah the God...
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(And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the si...
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And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
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For upon the first of the first month the project of going up from Babylon was determined on, and on...
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For Ezra had directed his heart to seek the law of Jehovah and to do it, and to teach in Israel the...
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And this is the copy of the letter that king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scrib...
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Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, an accomplished scribe of the law of the God (Elohim)...
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I have given orders that all they of the people of Israel, and of their priests and the Levites, in...
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Because thou art sent by the king, and by his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jer...
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and to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counsellors have freely offered to the God (...
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and all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, besides the volunta...
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Therefore thou shalt buy diligently with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their oblations and...
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And whatever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the g...
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And the vessels that have been given thee for the service of the house of thy God (Elohim), deliver...
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And whatever more shall be needful for the house of thy God (Elohim) which thou shalt have occasion...
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And I, I Artaxerxes the king, do give orders to all the treasurers that are beyond the river, that w...
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unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine...
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Whatever is commanded by the God (Elohim) of the heavens, let it be carefully done for the house of...
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Also we inform you, as regards all the priests and Levites, singers, doorkeepers, Nethinim, and mini...
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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God (Elohim), which is in thy hand, set magistrates and judg...
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And whosoever will not do the law of thy God (Elohim) and the law of the king, let judgment be execu...
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Blessed be Jehovah the God (Elohim) of our fathers, who has put [such a thing] as this in the king's...
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and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty p...
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