Ketuvim
Nechemyah9
Nehemiah · Chapter 9
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Yisra'el were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
And the seed of Yisra'el separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the torah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) their Elohim
one fourth part of the day; and
another
fourth part they confessed, and worshipped 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) their Elohim.
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani,
and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) their Elohim.
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah,
and Pethahiah, said, Stand up
and
bless 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Thou,
even thou,
art 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) alone; thou hast made shamayim, the shamayim of shamayim, with all their host, the earth, and all
things that
are therein, the seas, and all that
is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of shamayim worshippeth thee.
Thou
art 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) the Elohim, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Avraham;
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a b'rit with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give
it, I say,
to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou
art righteous:
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Mitsrayim, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as
it is this day.
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from shamayim, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and mitsvot:
And madest known unto them thy holy shabbat, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Mosheh thy servant:
And gavest them bread from shamayim for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy mitsvot,
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou
art a Elohim ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This
is
thy Elohim that brought thee up out of Mitsrayim, and had wrought great provocations;
Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness,
so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of shamayim, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess
it.
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy torah behind their backs, and slew thy nevi'im which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest
them from shamayim; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest
them from shamayim; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy torah: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy mitsvot, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy nevi'im: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou
art a gracious and merciful Elohim.
Now therefore, our Elohim, the great, the mighty, and the terrible Elohim, who keepest b'rit and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our kohanim, and on our nevi'im, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Howbeit thou
art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Neither have our kings, our princes, our kohanim, nor our fathers, kept thy torah, nor hearkened unto thy mitsvot and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Behold, we
are servants this day, and
for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we
are servants in it:
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we
are in great distress.
And because of all this we make a sure
b'rit, and write
it; and our princes, Levites,
and kohanim, seal
unto it.
Ketuvim
Nechemyah10
Nehemiah · Chapter 10
Now those that sealed
were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
Seraiah, Azariah, Yirmeyahu,
Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,
Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
Daniyye'l, Ginnethon, Baruch,
Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these
were the kohanim.
And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.
The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,
Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,
Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,
Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,
Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
And the rest of the people, the kohanim, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the torah of Elohim, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in Elohim’s torah, which was given by Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and to observe and do all the mitsvot of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our master, and his judgments and his statutes;
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
And
if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the shabbat day to sell,
that we would not buy it of them on the shabbat, or on the holy day: and
that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our Elohim;
For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy
things, and for the sin offerings to make an kapparah for Yisra'el, and
for all the work of the house of our Elohim.
And we cast the lots among the kohanim, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring
it into the house of our Elohim, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim, as
it is written in the torah:
And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH):
Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as
it is
written in the torah, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our Elohim, unto the kohanim that minister in the house of our Elohim:
And
that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the kohanim, to the chambers of the house of our Elohim; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
And the kohen the son of Aharon shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our Elohim, to the chambers, into the treasure house.
For the children of Yisra'el and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where
are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the kohanim that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our Elohim.
Ketuvim
Nechemyah11
Nehemiah · Chapter 11
And the rulers of the people dwelt at Yerushalayim: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Yerushalayim the holy city, and nine parts
to dwell in
other cities.
And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Yerushalayim.
Now these
are the chief of the province that dwelt in Yerushalayim: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities,
to wit, Yisra'el, the kohanim, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Shelomoh’s servants.
And at Yerushalayim dwelt
certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;
And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Yerushalayim
were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
And these
are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.
And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
And Joel the son of Zichri
was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah
was second over the city.
Of the kohanim: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.
Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub,
was the ruler of the house of Elohim.
And their brethren that did the work of the house
were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,
And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer
was Zabdiel, the son of
one of the great men.
Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites,
had
the oversight of the outward business of the house of Elohim.
And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph,
was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
All the Levites in the holy city
were two hundred fourscore and four.
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates,
were an hundred seventy and two.
And the residue of Yisra'el, of the kohanim,
and the Levites,
were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa
were
over the Nethinims.
The overseer also of the Levites at Yerushalayim
was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers
were over the business of the house of Elohim.
For
it was the king’s mitsvah concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.
And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah,
was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
And for the villages, with their fields,
some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and
in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and
in the villages thereof,
And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Beth-phelet,
And at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and
in the villages thereof,
And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,
And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,
Zanoah, Adullam, and
in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and
in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
The children also of Benjamin from Geba
dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and
in their villages,
And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
And of the Levites
were divisions
in Judah,
and in Benjamin.