Verse 3
Ezra 8:3
Bible in Basic English
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Of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed a hundred and fifty males.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִ/בְּנֵ֣י שְׁכַנְיָ֔ה מִ/בְּנֵ֥י פַרְעֹ֖שׁ זְכַרְיָ֑ה וְ/עִמּ֛/וֹ הִתְיַחֵ֥שׂ לִ/זְכָרִ֖ים מֵאָ֥ה וַ/חֲמִשִּֽׁים
English Translation
Of the sons of Shecaniah, the sons of Parosh: Zechariah, and with him were recorded males one hundred and fifty.
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Chapter 8 Context
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Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when...
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Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;
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3
Of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed a hundred and f...
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Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
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Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
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6
And of the sons of Adin, Ebed, the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
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7
And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah; the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
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8
And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.
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9
Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
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10
And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and sixty males.
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11
And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
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12
And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan, the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten males.
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13
And of the sons of Adonikam, the last, whose names were Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with the...
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14
And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
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15
And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three da...
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16
Then I sent for Eliezer and Ariel and Shemaiah and Elnathan Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechar...
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17
And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo an...
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18
And by the help of our God (Elohim) they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of...
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19
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
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20
And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two h...
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21
Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make...
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22
For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us...
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23
So we went without food, requesting our God (Elohim) for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.
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24
So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their bro...
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25
And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house o...
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26
Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred ta...
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And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in val...
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And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold a...
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Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests an...
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30
So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to J...
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31
Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem;...
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32
And we came to Jerusalem and were there for three days.
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33
And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the ho...
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34
All was handed over by number and by weight: and the weight was put on record at that time.
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35
And those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to th...
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And they gave the king's orders to the king's captains and the rulers across the river, and they gav...
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