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从被掳之地回来的人

1当亚达薛西王年间，同我从巴比伦上来的人，他们的族长和他们的家谱记在下面：

2属非尼哈的子孙有革顺；属以他玛的子孙有但以理；属大卫的子孙有哈突；

3属巴录的后裔，就是示迦尼的子孙有撒迦利亚，同着他，按家谱计算，男丁一百五十人；

4属巴哈·摩押的子孙有西拉希雅的儿子以利约乃，同着他有男丁二百；

5属示迦尼的子孙有雅哈悉的儿子，同着他有男丁三百；

6属亚丁的子孙有约拿单的儿子以别，同着他有男丁五十；

7属以拦的子孙有亚他利雅的儿子耶筛亚，同着他有男丁七十；

8属示法提雅的子孙有米迦勒的儿子西巴第雅，同着他有男丁八十；

9属约押的子孙有耶歇的儿子俄巴底亚，同着他有男丁二百一十八；

10属示罗密的子孙有约细斐的儿子，同着他有男丁一百六十；

11属比拜的子孙有比拜的儿子撒迦利亚，同着他有男丁二十八；

12属押甲的子孙有哈加坦的儿子约哈难，同着他有男丁一百一十；

13属亚多尼干的子孙，就是末尾的，他们的名字是以利法列、耶利、示玛雅，同着他们有男丁六十；

14属比革瓦伊的子孙有乌太和撒布，同着他们有男丁七十。

以斯拉为圣殿招集利未人

15我招聚这些人在流入亚哈瓦的河边，我们在那里住了三日。我查看百姓和祭司，见没有利未人在那里，

16就召首领以利以谢、亚列、示玛雅、以利拿单、雅立、以利拿单、拿单、撒迦利亚、米书兰，又召教习约雅立和以利拿单。

17我打发他们往迦西斐雅地方去见那里的首领易多，又告诉他们当向易多和他的弟兄尼提宁说什么话，叫他们为我们 神的殿带使用的人来。

18蒙我们 神施恩的手帮助我们，他们在以色列的曾孙、利未的孙子、抹利的后裔中带一个通达人来；还有示利比和他的众子与弟兄共一十八人。

19又有哈沙比雅，同着他有米拉利的子孙耶筛亚，并他的众子和弟兄共二十人。

20从前大卫和众首领派尼提宁服事利未人，现在从这尼提宁中也带了二百二十人来，都是按名指定的。

以斯拉领百姓禁食祷告

21那时，我在亚哈瓦河边宣告禁食，为要在我们 神面前克苦己心，求他使我们和妇人孩子，并一切所有的，都得平坦的道路。

22我求王拨步兵马兵帮助我们抵挡路上的仇敌，本以为羞耻；因我曾对王说：「我们 神施恩的手必帮助一切寻求他的；但他的能力和忿怒必攻击一切离弃他的。」

23所以我们禁食祈求我们的 神，他就应允了我们。

献给圣殿的礼物

24我分派祭司长十二人，就是示利比、哈沙比雅，和他们的弟兄十人，

25将王和谋士、军长，并在那里的以色列众人为我们 神殿所献的金银和器皿，都秤了交给他们。

26我秤了交在他们手中的银子有六百五十他连得；银器重一百他连得；金子一百他连得；

27金碗二十个，重一千达利克；上等光铜的器皿两个，宝贵如金。

28我对他们说：「你们归耶和华为圣，器皿也为圣；金银是甘心献给耶和华—你们列祖之 神的。

29你们当警醒看守，直到你们在耶路撒冷耶和华殿的库内，在祭司长和利未族长，并以色列的各族长面前过了秤。」

30于是，祭司、利未人按着分量接受金银和器皿，要带到耶路撒冷我们 神的殿里。

返回耶路撒冷

31正月十二日，我们从亚哈瓦河边起行，要往耶路撒冷去。我们 神的手保佑我们，救我们脱离仇敌和路上埋伏之人的手。

32我们到了耶路撒冷，在那里住了三日。

33第四日，在我们 神的殿里把金银和器皿都秤了，交在祭司乌利亚的儿子米利末的手中。同着他有非尼哈的儿子以利亚撒，还有利未人耶书亚的儿子约撒拔和宾内的儿子挪亚底。

34当时都点了数目，按着分量写在册上。

35从掳到之地归回的人向以色列的 神献燔祭，就是为以色列众人献公牛十二只，公绵羊九十六只，绵羊羔七十七只，又献公山羊十二只作赎罪祭，这都是向耶和华焚献的。

36他们将王的谕旨交给王所派的总督与河西的省长，他们就帮助百姓，又供给 神殿里所需用的。

1Now these are the chiefs of families, and the genealogy of them, who came up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

2Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattus.

3Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos, Zacharias, and with him were numbered a hundred and fifty men.

4Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of Zareha, and with him two hundred men.

5Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and with him three hundred men.

6Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty men.

7Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and with him seventy men.

8Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael, and with him eighty men.

9Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen men.

10Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and with him a hundred and sixty men.

11Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him eight and twenty men.

12Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and with him a hundred and ten men.

13Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the last: and these are their names: Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Samaias, and with them sixty men.

14Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur, and with them seventy men.

15And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to Ahava, and we stayed there three days: and I sought among the people and among the priests for the sons of Levi, and found none there.

16So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Semeias, and Elnathan, and Jarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zacharias, and Mosollam, chief men: and Joiarib, and Elnathan, wise men.

17And I sent them to Eddo, who is chief in the place of Chasphia, and I put in their mouth the words that they should speak to Eddo, and his brethren the Nathinites in the place of Chasphia, that they should bring us ministers of the house of our God.

18And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a most learned man of the sons of Moholi the son of Levi the son of Israel, and Sarabias and his sons, and his brethren eighteen,

19And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of Merari, and his brethren, and his sons twenty.

20And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the service of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these were called by their names.

21And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.

22For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.

23And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.

24And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and Hasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,

25And I weighed unto them the silver and gold, and the vessels consecrated for the house of our God, which the king and his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel, that were found had offered.

26And I weighed to their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and a hundred vessels of silver, and a hundred talents of gold,

27And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of the best shining brass, beautiful as gold.

28And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to the Lord the God of our fathers.

29Watch ye and beep them, till you deliver them by weight before the chief of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the families of Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasure of the house of the Lord.

30And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

31Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

32And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there three days.

33And on the fourth day the silver and the gold, and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Urias the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them Jozabad the son of Josue, and Noadaia the son of Benoi, Levites.

34According to the number and weight of every thing: and all the weight was written at that time.

35Moreover the children of them that had been carried away that were come out of the captivity, offered holocausts to the God of Israel, twelve calves for all the people of Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve he goats for sin: all for a holocaust to the Lord.

36And they gave the king’s edicts to the lords that were from the king’s court, and the governors beyond the river, and they furthered the people and the house of God.