Verse 8
Ezra 7:8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
8
And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּבֹ֥א יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם בַּ/חֹ֣דֶשׁ הַ/חֲמִישִׁ֑י הִ֛יא שְׁנַ֥ת הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֖ית לַ/מֶּֽלֶךְ
English Translation
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which is the seventh year of the king.
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Chapter 7 Context
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Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, Esdras the son of Saraias, t...
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The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob,
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The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth,
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The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci,
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The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest from the begin...
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This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God...
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And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the children of the priests, and of the chi...
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And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king.
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For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of th...
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For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do and to teach in Israel the...
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And this is the copy of the letter of the edict, which king Artaxerxes gave to Esdras the priest, th...
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Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned scribe of the law of the God (Elohim...
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It is decreed by me, that all they of the people of Israel, and of the priests and of the Levites in...
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For thou art sent from before the king, and his seven counsellors, to visit Judea and Jerusalem acco...
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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 shalt find in all the province of Babylon, and that the people...
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Take freely, and buy diligently with this money, calves, rams, lambs, with the sacrifices and libati...
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And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing with the rest of the silver and gol...
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The vessels also, that are given thee for the sacrifice of the house of thy God (Elohim), deliver th...
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And whatsoever more there shall be need of for the house of thy God (Elohim), how much soever thou s...
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I Artaxerxes the king have ordered and decreed to all the keepers of the public chest, that are beyo...
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Unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred cores of wheat, and unto a hundred bates of win...
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All that belongeth to the rites of the God (Elohim) of heaven, let it be given diligently in the hou...
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We give you also to understand concerning all the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the...
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And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God (Elohim), which is in thy hand, appoint judges an...
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And whosoever will not do the law of thy God (Elohim), and the law of the king diligently, judgment...
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Blessed be the Lord the God (Elohim) of our fathers, who hath put this in the king's heart, to glori...
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And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his counsellors, and all the mighty prince...
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