RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

should say to Iddo, and to his brothers the Nethinim, at
the place Casiphya, that they should bring to us avadim
for the Bayit of our Elohim.
18 And by the tov hand of our Elohim upon us they
brought us a man of binah, of the sons of Machli, the son
of Lewi, the son of Yisrael; and Sherevyah, with his sons
and his brothers, eighteen;
19 And Hashavyah, and with him Yeshayah of the sons of
Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
20 Also of the Nethinim, whom Dawid and the leaders
had appointed for the service of the Lewiym, two hundred
twenty Nethinim: all of them were designated by name.
21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava,
that we might afflict ourselves before our Elohim, to seek
from Him a right halacha for us, and for our little ones,
and for all our substance.
22 For I was ashamed to require of the melech a band of
soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the
way: because we had spoken to the melech, saying, The
hand of our Elohim is upon all them for tov that seek
Him; but His power and His wrath is against all them that
forsake Him.
23 So we fasted and besought our Elohim for this: and He
was moved by us.
24 Then I separated twelve of the heads of the Kohanim,
Sherevyah, Hashavyah, and ten of their brothers with
them,
25 And weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the
vessels, even the offering of the Bayit of our Elohim,
which the melech, and his counselors, and his masters,
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26 I even weighed to their hand six hundred fifty talents
of silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents, and of gold
a hundred talents;
27 Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and
two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
28 And I said to them, You are kadosh to vuvh; the
vessels are kadosh also; and the silver and the gold are
terumah offerings to vuvh Elohim of your ahvot.
29 Watch, and keep them, until you weigh them before
the heads of the Kohanim and the Lewiym, and heads of
the ahvot of Yisrael, at Yahrushalayim, in the rooms of
the Bayit of vuvh.
30 So the Kohanim and the Lewiym took the weight of
the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to
Yahrushalayim to the Bayit of our Elohim.
31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the
twelfth day of the first month, to go to Yahrushalayim:
and the hand of our Elohim was upon us, and He
delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and from such
as lay in wait by the way.
32 And we came to Yahrushalayim, and stayed there
three days.
33 Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and
the vessels weighed in the Bayit of our Elohim by the
hand of Meremoth the son of Uriyah the kohen; and with
him was El-Azar the son of Pinchus; and with them was
Yotzavad the son of Yeshua, and Noadyah the son of
Binnui, the Lewiym;
34 By number and by weight of everything: and all the
weight was written at that time.
35 Also the children of those that had been carried away,
who were coming out of the exile, offered burnt offerings
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to the Elohim of Yisrael, twelve bullocks for kol Yisrael,
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goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to
vuvh.
36 And they delivered the melech’s decrees to the
melech’s viceroys, and to the governors beyond the river:
and they lifted up the people, and the Bayit of Elohim.
Now when these things were done, the leaders came to
me, saying, The people of Yisrael, and the Kohanim, and
the Lewiym, have not separated themselves from the
people of the lands, and are doing according to their
abominations, even of the Kanaanites, the Hittites, the
Perizzites, the Yevusites, the Ammonites, the Moavites,
the Mitzrim, and the Amorites.
2 For they have taken their daughters for themselves, and
for their sons: so that the kadosh zera has been mingled
with the peoples of those lands: yes, even the hand of the
leaders and rulers have been foremost in this trespass.
3 And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my
mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and my
beard, and sat down astonished.
4 Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at
the words of the Elohim of Yisrael, because of the
transgression of the exiles; and I sat astonished until the
maariv sacrifice.
5 And at the maariv sacrifice I arose up from my
heaviness; and having torn my garment and my mantle, I
fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to vuvh my
Elohim.
6 And said, O my Elohim, I am ashamed and blush to lift
up my face to You, my Elohim: for our iniquities have
increased way over our head, and our trespass is risen up
to the shamayim.
7 Since the days of our ahvot have we been in a great
trespass even until this day; and for our iniquities have
we, our melechim, and our Kohanim, been delivered into
the hand of the melechim of the lands, to the sword, to
exile, and to be a plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is
until this day.
8 And now for a little time rachamim has been shown
from vuvh our Elohim, to leave us a remnant to escape,
and to give us a secure hold in His Kadosh-Place, that our
Elohim may lighten our eyes, and give us a little revival
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9 For we were avadim; yet our Elohim has not forsaken
us in our bondage, but has extended rachamim to us in the
sight of the melechim of Persia, to give us a revival, to set
up the Bayit of our Elohim, and to repair its desolations,
and to give us a wall in Yahudah and in Yahrushalayim.
10 And now, O our Elohim, what shall we say after this?
For we have forsaken Your mitzvoth,
11 Which You have commanded by Your avadim the
neviim, saying, The land, which you go to possess, is an
unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands,
with their abominations, who have filled it from one end
to another with their uncleanness.
12 Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons,
neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their
shalom, or their wealth le-olam-va-ed: that you may be
strong, and eat the tov of the land, and leave it as an
inheritance to your children le-olam-va-ed.
13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds,