Ezra 7
7:1And after these things, in the kingdom of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, there ascended Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,
7:2son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,
7:3son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth,
7:4son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,
7:5son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the foremost priest.
7:6This Ezra ascended from out of Babylon; and he was a quick scribe in the law of Moses, which the lord God of Israel gave. And the king gave to him; for the hand of the lord his God was upon him in all things which he sought.
7:7And there ascended some from the sons of Israel, and from the priests, and from the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
7:8And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, this was the seventh year of the king.
7:9For on day one of the first month he founded the expedition from Babylon. And during the first day of the fifth month he came into Jerusalem, for the hand of his God was good upon him.
7:10For Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of the lord, and to do and to teach in Israel the orders and judgments.
7:11And this is the copy of the edict which Artaxerxes the king gave to Ezra the priest, to the scribe of the scroll of the words of the commandments of the lord, and his orders unto Israel.
7:12Artaxerxes king of kings, to Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of heaven. Let the matter and the answer be initiated,.
7:13From me was rendered a decree, that all the ones willing in my kingdom from the people of Israel, and priests, and Levites, to go to Jerusalem -- with you let them go!
7:14In so far as from in front of the king, and of his seven counselors, one should be sent to look about over Judea and Jerusalem, and in the law of their God in your hand,
7:15to carry away even silver and gold for the house of the lord, which the king and the counselors were willing to give to the God of Israel, to the one inhabiting in Jerusalem.
7:16And all the silver and gold, whatever you should find in every place of Babylon, let it be offered with a voluntary offering of the people, and the priests, of the ones willing to give for the house of God, the one in Jerusalem.
7:17And every one going you arrange this readily by this scroll -- calves, rams, lambs, and their sacrifice offerings, and their libation offerings! And you shall offer them upon the altar of the house of your God, of the one in Jerusalem.
7:18And if anything should seem good with you and your brethren with the rest of the silver and gold to do, as it pleases your God, you do it!
7:19And the items, the ones given to you for the ministration of the house of God, you deliver before God in Jerusalem!
7:20And for the rest of the need of the house of your God, what ever should be apparent to you to give, you shall give from the king's treasury houses.
7:21I Artaxerxes the king established a decree to all the treasuries, to the ones on the other side of the river, that all what ever he should ask of you (Ezra the priest and scribe of the law of the God of heaven) readily let it become so!
7:22Unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred cors of wheat, and unto a hundred baths of wine, and unto a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt of which the amount is not recorded.
7:23All what is in the decree of the God of the heaven, let it become in the house of the God of the heaven! Take heed lest any make an attempt against the house of the God of the heaven! lest at any time anger should happen upon the kingdom of the king, and his sons.
7:24And to you, let it be made known in respect to all the priests, and to the Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, and ministers of the house of God! that this tribute, and toll, and impost, you do not have authority to assign upon them.
7:25And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of God, the wisdom in your hand, ordain scribes and judges! that they might judge all the people, the people on the other side of the river, to all the ones knowing the laws of your God. And to the ones not knowing you shall make it known.
7:26And all who ever might not be observing the law of God and the law of the king diligently, judgment will be taken upon him, whether for death, whether to root him out, or to instruct, or to penalize the subsistence, or for prison to lock up.
7:27Blessed be the lord God of our fathers, who put it in the heart of the king thus, to glorify the house of the lord, the one in Jerusalem.
7:28And upon me mercy leaned in the eyes of the king, and his counselors, and all the rulers of the king of the mighty ones. And I was strengthened by the good hand of the lord my God upon me, and I gathered from Israel rulers to ascend with me.