Septuaginta, 2 Ezra, ed. Henry Barclay Swete, 7

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Καὶ μετὰ τὰ ῥήματα ἐν βασιλείᾳ Ἀρθασεσθὰ βασιλέως Περσῶν ἀνέβη Ἔσρας υἱὸς Σαραίου υἱοῦ Ζαρείου υἱοῦ Ἑλκειὰ

υἱοῦ Σαλοὺμ υἱοῦ Σαδδοὺκ υἱοῦ Ἀχειτὼβ

υἱοῦ Σαμαρειὰ υἱοῦ Ἐσρειὰ υἱοῦ Μαρερὼθ

υἱοῦ Ζαραιὰ υἱοῦ Σαουιὰ υἱοῦ Βοκκεὶ

υἱοῦ Ἀβεισοῦε υἱοῦ Φινεὲς υἱοῦ Ἐλεαζὰρ υἱοῦ Ἀαρὼν τοῦ ἱερέως τοῦ πατρῴου.

ἀνέβη ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ αὐτὸς γραμματεὺς ταχὺς ἐν νόμῳ Μωυσῆ ὃν ἔδωκεν Κύριος ὁ θεὸς Ἰσραήλ· καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ὁ βασιλεύς, ὅτι χεὶρ θεοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἐν πᾶσιν οἷς ἐζήτει αὐτός.

καὶ ἀνέβησαν ἀπὸ υἱῶν ¹² Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἱερέων καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν Λευειτῶν καὶ οἱ ἄδοντες ³ καὶ οἱ πυλωροὶ καὶ οἱ Ναθινεὶμ εἰς Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἐν ἔτει ἑβδόμῳ τῷ Ἀσαρθαθὰ τῷ βασιλεῖ

καὶ ἤλθοσαν εἰς Ἰερουσαλὴμ τῷ μηνὶ τῷ πέμπτῳ, τοῦτο τὸ ἔτος ἕβδομον τῷ βασιλεῖ

ὅτι ἐν μιᾷ τοῦ μηνὸς τοῦ πέμπτου ἤλθοσαν εἰς Ἰερουσαλήμ, ὅτι χεὶρ θεοῦ αὐτοῦ ἦν ἀγαθὴ ἐπʼ αὐτόν.

ὅτι Ἔσρας ἔδωκεν ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ζητῆσαι τὸν νόμον καὶ ποιεῖν καὶ διδάσκειν ἐν Ἰσραὴλ προστάγματα καὶ κρίμα.

Καὶ αὕτη ἡ διασάφησις τοῦ διατάγματος οὗ ἔδωκεν Ἀσαρθαθὰ τῷ Ἔσρᾳ τῷ ἱερεῖ τῷ γραμματεῖ βιβλίου λόγων ἐντολῶν Κυρίου καὶ προσταγμάτων αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰσραήλ

Ἀσαρθαθὰ βασιλεὺς βασιλέων Ἔσρᾳ γραμματεῖ νόμου τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ. τετέλεστο λόγος καὶ ἡ ἀπόκρισις.

ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ ἐτέθη γνώμη ὅτι πᾶς ἑκουσιαζόμενος ἐν βασιλείᾳ μου ἀπὸ λαοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἱερέων καὶ Λευειτῶν πορευθῆναι εἰς Ἰερουσαλήμ, μετὰ σοῦ πορευθῆναι.

ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τῶν ἑπτὰ συμβούλων ἀπεστάλη ἐπισκέψασθαι ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰουδαίαν καὶ εἰς Ἰερουσαλὴμ νόμῳ θεοῦ αὐτῶν τῷ ἐν χειρί σου.

καὶ εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον ὃ βασιλεὺς καὶ οἱ σύμβουλοι ἡκουσιάσθησαν τῷ κυρίῳ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ τῷ ἐν Ἰερουσαλὴμ κατασκηνοῦντι,

καὶ πᾶν ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον ὅ τι ἐὰν εὕρῃς ἐν πάσῃ χώρᾳ Βαβυλῶνος μετὰ ἑκουσιασμοῦ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ ἱερέων τῶν ἑκουσια
ζομένων εἰς οἶκον θεοῦ τὸν ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ·

καὶ πᾶν προσπορευομενον, τοῦτον ἑτοίμως ἔνταξον ἐν βιβλίῳ τούτῳ, μόσχους. κριούς. ἀμνούς, καὶ θυσίας αὐτῶν καὶ σπονδὰς αὐτῶν· καὶ προσοίσεις αὐτὰ ἐπὶ θυσιαστηρίου τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν τοῦ ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ.

καὶ ἔτι ἐπὶ σέ καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφούς σου ἠγαθύνθη ἐν καταλοίπῳ τοῦ ἀργυρίου καὶ τοῦ χρυσίου ποιῆσαι; ὡς ἀρεστὸν τῷ θεῷ ὑμῶν ποιήσατε.

καὶ τὰ σκεύη τὰ διδόμενά σοι εἰς λειτουργίαν οἴκου θεοῦ παράδος ἐνώπιον θεοῦ ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ.

καὶ κατάλοιπον χρείας οἴκου θεοῦ ὃ ἂν φανῇ σοι δοῦναι δώσεις ἀπὸ οἴκων γάζης βασιλέως.

καὶ ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, ἔγωγ᾿ Ἀρσαρθαθὰ βασιλεὺς ἔθηκα γνώμην πάσαις ταῖς γάζαις ⁴⁶ ταῖς ἐν πέρα τοῦ ποταμοῦ, ὅτι πᾶν ὃ ἂν αἰτήσῃ ὑμᾶς Ἔσρας ὁ ἱερεὺς γραμματεὺς τοῦ νόμου τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἑτοίμαως γινέσθω,

ἕως ἀργυρίου ταλάντων καὶ ἕως πυροῦ κόρων ἑκατόν, καὶ ἕως οἴνου ἀποθηκῶν ἑκατόν, καὶ ἄλας οὗ οὐκ ἔστιν γραφή.

πᾶν ὅ ἐστιν ἐν γνώμῃ θεοῦ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ γινέσθω. προσέχετε ἐπιχειρῆσαι μήτι εἰς οἶκον θεοῦ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, μή ποτε γένηται ὀργὴ ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ.

καὶ ὑμῖν ἐγνώρισται ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν καὶ τοῖς Λευείταις, ἄδουσιν, πυλωροῖς, Ναθεινεὶμ καὶ λειτουργοῖς οἴκου θεοῦ τούτου, φόρος μὴ ἔστω σοι· οὐκ ἐξουσιάσεις καταδουλοῦσθαι αὐτούς.

καὶ σύ, Ἔσρα, ᾧ ἡ σοφία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν χειρί σου, κατάστησον γραμματεῖς καὶ κριτάς, ἴνα ὦσιν κρίνοντες παντὶ τῷ λαῷ τῷ ἐν πέρα τοῦ ποταμοῦ πᾶσιν τοῖς εἰδόσιν νόμον τοῦ θεοῦ· καὶ τῷ μὴ εἰδότι γνωριεῖτε.

καὶ πᾶς ὃς ἂν μὴ ἦ ποιῶν νόμον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ νόμον τοῦ βασιλέως ἑτοίμως, τὸ κρίμα ἔσται γινόμενον ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ἐὰν εἰς θάνατον ἐὰν εἰς παιδείαν ἐὰν εἰς ζημίαν βίου ἐὰν εἰς παράδοσιν.

εὐλογητὸς Κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, ὃς ἔδωκεν οὕτως ἐν καρδίᾳ τοῦ βασιλέως, τοῦ δοξάσαντος οἶκον τὸν ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ,

καὶ ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἔκλινεν ἔλεος ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τῶν συμβούλων αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντων τῶν ἀρχόντων τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν ἐπηρμένων. καὶ ἐγὼ ἐκραταιώθην ὡς χεὶρ θεοῦ ἡ ἀγαθὴ ἐπʼ ἐμέ, καὶ συνῆξα ἀπὸ Ἰσραὴλ ἄρχοντας ἀναβῆναι μετʼ ἐμοῦ.

2 Ezra. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete. United States. 2017.

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Ἔσδρας Βʹ (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.)

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Ezra Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 7 focus

Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;

this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yahweh his God on him.

There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

For on the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel:

Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.

I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are minded of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.

Because you are sent of the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do you after the will of your God.

The vessels that are given you for the service of the house of your God, deliver you before the God of Jerusalem.

Whatever more shall be needful for the house of your God, which you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure-house.

I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,

to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred measures of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them.

You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach you him who doesn’t know them.

Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem;

and has extended lovingkindness to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

Nehemiah Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 7 focus

Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

I said to them, Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand [on guard], let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, and everyone [to be] over against his house.

Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.

My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:

These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city;

who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.

The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen.

The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.

The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.

The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.

The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.

The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven.

The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven.

The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.

The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight.

The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four.

The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve.

The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.

The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.

The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.

The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two.

The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two.

The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.

The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.

The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.

The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.

The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty.

The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.

The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.

The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

The children of Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen.

The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.

The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.

The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.

The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,

the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.

The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,

the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon.

All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

These were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.

Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.

Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

[their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.

Some from among the heads of fathers’ [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.

Some of the heads of fathers’ [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.

That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.

So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.

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