Book of Nehemiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 932
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
Hakoz; of the Bcni Barzilai; who 66 took a. wife from the daughters of 68 Baxzilai the Giladite, so were called by his name; these sought for their Register with those who had a. genes.- logy, but could not find it, so were excluded from the Priesthood, and the Governor ordered them not to eat of the most sacred things until a Priest was appointed with Urim and Thumim. ‘ The whole Collection was altogether,——F0rty-two thou- 42,360 sand three hundred and sixty, besides their men and women servants, of whom there were Seven thousand three hundred 7,337 and thirty-seven; and two hun· dred and forty·Hve men and 245 WOIDBD SlHgC!`S. 73 Total 49,942
1`hey had seven hundred and
thirty·six horses; two hundred and forty·nve mules, six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses. ‘And the whole of the Heads of Houses subscribed to the work; The Governor gave to the T rea-
sury, a thousand Darics in gold; fifty basons; five hundred and thirty Priests’ robes. ‘And the Heads of Houses gave
to the Treasury of the work ;———'I`wenty thousand Darics of gold; and two thousand two hundred pounds weight of silver; and what the rest of the People gave was twenty thousand Darics of gold; and two thousand pounds of silver; and sixty·seven Priests’ robes. ‘ Thus the Priests and Levites, and
Singers, and some of the Attendants, and of all the People, settled in their villages, by the arrival of the seventh month, along with the Children of Israel in those villages. @¤iu ®;ra Qizah the gah aah ilzstureh it. All the People afterwards col- lected as one man, to the Square opposite the WaterGate,and requested Ezra the Scholar to produce the Book of the Laws of Moses, which the LQRD communicated to Israel. ‘ Ezra the Priest consequently
brought the Law to the Meeting both of the men and the women, for all intelligently to hear it, on the iirst day of the seventh month, and read it in the Square which is opposite the Water Gate from dawn until mid·day, before the men and women, and the intelligent, and the whole of the people listened to the Book of the Law. Ezra, however, stood to read the book, on a platform of wood that had been made for him and Mathiah for the purpose, and Shema, and Aniah, and Auriah, and Hilfiah, and Masiah stood beside him, on his right, and on his left Pediah, and ·.Mishal, and Malkiah, and Hashem, and Hashbadanah, Zekeriah, and Mesh- alum. Then Ezra opened the Book in the sight of all the People,—·for he was above all the peop1e,·——and when he opened it, all the People stood up. Ezra nrst blessed the GREAT EVER- Lzvmo Gon :--· And all the People responded
Amen! Amenl’ with a lifting up
of their right hands, and bowed and did reverence to the Even-Lxvme with their face earthwards. Then jeshua, and Bani, and Sherabiah, jamin, Akub, Shabthi, Hodiah, Ma- siah, Kalita, Azriah, jozabad, Hanan, Piliah, and the Levites, translated the Law to the People, while the people stood up. And they read from the Book of
the LAW of GOD with an Inter- preter, who translated the meaning, so that they might understand what was read. ‘Thus Nehemiah} who was the
Governor, and Ezra the Priest, read, and the Levites who translated to the People, said to all the People, ‘This day is holy to your Evmz-
L1v1NG Gon l—~Do not be depressed, and do not weep,’~—for all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law,-—-‘ but,’ he said to ro them, ‘go, eat the best and drink the sweetest, and send some thing to those who have nothing ready, for the day is sacred to our Masrnn; I Nm.-—Ch. 8v. This Nehemiah or, men- tioned here was not t e writer of the history so called, but another former Governor of the same name (see the Book of Ezra, Ch. 2,v. 2), acgoréxpanymg Zerubbabel gx years before 932
