Ezra 1:4

1:4 Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors ¹  with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.’”

Ezra 3:2

3:2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak ²  and his priestly colleagues ³  and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his colleagues ⁴  started to build ⁵  the altar of the God of Israel so they could offer burnt offerings on it as required by ⁶  the law of Moses the man of God.

Ezra 8:18

8:18 Due to the fact that the good hand of our God was on us, they brought us a skilled man, from the descendants of Mahli the son of Levi son of Israel. This man was Sherebiah, ⁷  who was accompanied by his sons and brothers, ⁸  18 men,

Ezra 10:9

10:9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ⁹  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ¹⁰  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

¹ tn Heb “the men of his place.”

² sn Jozadak (also in 3:8) is a variant spelling of Jehozadak.

³ tn Heb “his brothers the priests.”

⁴ tn Heb “his brothers.”

⁵ tn Heb “arose and built.”

⁶ tn Heb “written in.” Cf. v. 4.

³ tn Heb “and Sherebiah.” The words “this man was” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Or “relatives” (so CEV; NRSV “kin”); also in v. 19.

⁴ tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadÿlu, “were separated”) of the MT.

⁵ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”