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Ezra 2:62

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2:62 They 1  searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but did not find them. 2  They were therefore excluded 3  from the priesthood.

Ezra 3:6

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3:6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. However, the Lord’s temple was not at that time established. 4 

Ezra 10:6

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10:6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed 5  there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

Ezra 10:13

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10:13 However, the people are numerous and it is the rainy season. 6  We are unable to stand here outside. Furthermore, this business cannot be resolved in a day or two, for we have sinned greatly in this matter.

Ezra 2:59

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2:59 These are the ones that came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify 7  their family connection 8  or their ancestry, 9  as to whether they really were from Israel):

Ezra 2:63

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2:63 The governor 10  instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult 11  the Urim and Thummim.

Ezra 8:15

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The Exiles Travel to Jerusalem

8:15 I had them assemble 12  at the canal 13  that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I observed that the people and the priests were present, but I found no Levites there.

Ezra 9:14

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9:14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?

Ezra 10:8

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10:8 Everyone who did not come within three days would thereby forfeit all his property, in keeping with the counsel of the officials and the elders. Furthermore, he himself would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles.

Ezra 4:2-3

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4:2 they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders 14  and said to them, “Let us help you build, 15  for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him 16  from the time 17  of King Esarhaddon 18  of Assyria, who brought us here.” 19  4:3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right 20  to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”

Ezra 9:1

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A Prayer of Ezra

9:1 Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents 21  who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezra 9:9

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9:9 Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us 22  to restore the temple of our God and to raise 23  up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem. 24 

Ezra 9:12

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9:12 Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children 25  forever.’

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[2:62]  1 tn Heb “these.”

[2:62]  2 tn Heb “their records were searched for in the genealogical materials, but were not found.” This passive construction has been translated as active for stylistic reasons.

[2:62]  3 tn Heb “they were desecrated.”

[3:6]  4 tn Or “the foundation of the LORD’s temple was not yet laid.

[10:6]  7 tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.

[10:13]  10 tn Heb “the time [is] rain showers.”

[2:59]  13 tn Heb “relate.”

[2:59]  14 tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

[2:59]  15 tn Heb “their seed.”

[2:63]  16 tn The Hebrew word תִּרְשָׁתָא (tirshata’) is an official title of the Persian governor in Judea, perhaps similar in meaning to “excellency” (BDB 1077 s.v.; HALOT 1798 s.v.; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 395).

[2:63]  17 tn Heb “to stand.”

[8:15]  19 tn Or “I gathered them.”

[8:15]  20 tn Heb “river.” So also in vv. 21, 31.

[4:2]  22 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.” So also in v. 3.

[4:2]  23 tn Heb “Let us build with you.”

[4:2]  24 tc The translation reads with the Qere, a Qumran MS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Arabic version וְלוֹ (vÿlo, “and him”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, וְלֹא (vÿlo’, “and not”).

[4:2]  25 tn Heb “days.”

[4:2]  26 sn Esarhaddon was king of Assyria ca. 681-669 b.c.

[4:2]  27 sn The Assyrian policy had been to resettle Samaria with peoples from other areas (cf. 2 Kgs 17:24-34). These immigrants acknowledged Yahweh as well as other deities in some cases. The Jews who returned from the Exile regarded them with suspicion and were not hospitable to their offer of help in rebuilding the temple.

[4:3]  25 tn Heb “not to you and to us.”

[9:1]  28 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.” So also in v. 2.

[9:9]  31 tn Heb “has granted us reviving.”

[9:9]  32 tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

[9:9]  33 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:12]  34 tn Heb “sons”; cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NLT “children”; NCV, TEV “descendants.”



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