Verse 23
Ezra 8:23
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
23
And we fasted, and besought our God (Elohim) for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/נָּצ֛וּמָ/ה וַ/נְּבַקְשָׁ֥/ה מֵ/אֱלֹהֵ֖י/נוּ עַל זֹ֑את וַ/יֵּעָתֵ֖ר לָֽ/נוּ
English Translation
And we will be urgent, and we will seek from our God about this, and He will be entreated for us.
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Chapter 8 Context
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Now these are the chiefs of families, and the genealogy of them, who came up with me from Babylon in...
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Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattus.
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Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos, Zacharias, and with him were numbered a hundred and fif...
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Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of Zareha, and with him two hundred men.
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Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and with him three hundred men.
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Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty men.
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Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and with him seventy men.
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Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael, and with him eighty men.
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Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen men.
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Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and with him a hundred and sixty men.
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Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him eight and twenty men.
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Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and with him a hundred and ten men.
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Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the last: and these are their names: Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Sa...
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Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur, and with them seventy men.
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And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to Ahava, and we stayed there three da...
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So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Semeias, and Elnathan, and Jarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan...
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And I sent them to Eddo, who is chief in the place of Chasphia, and I put in their mouth the words t...
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And by the good hand of our God (Elohim) upon us, they brought us a most learned man of the sons of...
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And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of Merari, and his brethren, and his sons twenty.
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And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the service of the Levites, Nathinites t...
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And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord ou...
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For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way:...
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And we fasted, and besought our God (Elohim) for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.
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And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and Hasabias, and with them ten of the...
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And I weighed unto them the silver and gold, and the vessels consecrated for the house of our God (E...
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And I weighed to their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and a hundred vessels of silve...
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And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of the best shining brass, beautiful...
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And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and...
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Watch ye and beep them, till you deliver them by weight before the chief of the priests, and of the...
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And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and gold, and the vessels, to carr...
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Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem: a...
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And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there three days.
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And on the fourth day the silver and the gold, and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God...
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According to the number and weight of every thing: and all the weight was written at that time.
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Moreover the children of them that had been carried away that were come out of the captivity, offere...
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And they gave the king's edicts to the lords that were from the king's court, and the governors beyo...
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