Ezra 8
8:1And these are the rulers of their families, and the genealogy of the ones ascending with me, in the kingdom of Artaxerxes the king of Babylon.
8:2Of the sons of Phinehas -- Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar -- Daniel; of the sons of David -- Hattush;
8:3of the sons of Shechaniah of the sons of Pharosh -- Zechariah, and the males with him having traced descent -- a hundred and fifty.
8:4Of the sons Pahath-moab -- Elihoenai son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
8:5Of the sons Shechaniah -- son Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
8:6Of the sons of Adin -- Ebed son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
8:7Of the sons of Elam -- Jeshaiaih son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
8:8Of the sons of Shephatiah -- Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him eighty males.
8:9Of the sons of Joab -- Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred eighteen males.
8:10From the sons of Shelomith -- son of Josiphiah, and with him a hundred sixty males.
8:11From the sons of Bebai -- Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males.
8:12From the sons of Azgad -- Johanan son of Hakkatan, and with him, a hundred ten males.
8:13Of the sons of Adonikam last, and these are the names of them -- Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.
8:14Of the sons of Bigvai -- Uthai and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
8:15And I gathered them to the river, the one coming to Ahava; and we camped there three days. And I perceived among the people, and among the priests, there were not any from the sons of Levi found there.
8:16And I sent to Eleazar, to Ariel, to Shemaiah, and to Elnathan, and to Jarib to Elnatham, to Nathan, to Zechariah, to Meshullam, rulers; to Joiarib, and to Elnathan, ones perceiving.
8:17And I gave charge to them to Iddo the ruler of Casiphia of the place. And I put in their mouths words to speak to Iddo, and to their brethren of the Nethinim, of the ones with the money of the place Casiphia, to bring to us ministers and singers into the house of our God.
8:18And they came to us as the good hand of our God was upon us, with a discerning man from the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi of Israel. And Sherebiah, and his sons, and his brethren -- eighteen.
8:19And Hashabiah and Jeshaiah from the sons of Merari, his brethren and his sons -- twenty.
8:20And from the Nethinim, whom David appointed and the rulers for service of the Levites -- two hundred twenty Nethinim; all these were named.
8:21And I called there a fast at the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek by him a straight way for us, and for our children, and for all our property.
8:22For I was ashamed to ask from the king for a force and horsemen to deliver us from the enemy in the way; for we said to the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all the ones seeking him for good, and his might and his rage is upon all the ones abandoning him.
8:23And we fasted and sought from our God concerning this; and he heeded us.
8:24And I separated twelve of the rulers of the priests, to Sherebiah, to Hashabiah, and with them from their brethren -- ten.
8:25And I set before them the silver and the gold, and the items of the first-fruit of the house of our God, which the king separated in dedication, and his counselors, and his rulers, and all the ones being found of Israel.
8:26And I set in their hands silver -- six hundred fifty talents, and vessels made of silver -- a hundred, and talents of gold -- a hundred;
8:27and twenty bowls of gold of a thousand drachmas, and vessels of brass, shining, good quality, diverse, desirable as gold.
8:28And I said to them, You are holy to the lord God, and the holy vessels, and the silver, and the gold are a voluntary offering to the lord God of our fathers.
8:29Be awake and give heed until you set them before the rulers of the priests and the Levites, and rulers of the families of Israel in Jerusalem, in the cubicles of the house of the lord!
8:30And the priests and the Levites took the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them into Jerusalem into the house of our God.
8:31And we lifted away from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month, to come unto Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was upon us, and he rescued us from the hand of the enemy, and the warlike people along the way.
8:32And we came into Jerusalem, and we stayed there three days.
8:33And on the fourth day we set the silver, and the gold, and the vessels in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad son of Jeshua, and Noadiah son of Binnui -- the Levites.
8:34By number and by weight all were measured; and all the weight was written down at that time.
8:35And the ones coming out of the captivity, sons of the sojourn, brought whole burnt-offerings to the God of Israel; calves -- twelve for all Israel, rams -- ninety-six, lambs -- seventy-seven, winter yearlings of the goats for the sin offering -- twelve; the whole amount for whole burnt-offerings to the lord.
8:36And they gave the mandate of the king to the administrators of the king, and chief rulers on the other side of the river; and they glorified the people, and the house of God.