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Ezra 1 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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for his God shall be with him, and he shall go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and let him build the house of the God of Israel: he <i>is</i> the God that is in Jerusalem. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And <i>let</i> every <i>Jew</i> that is left <i>go</i> from every place where he sojourns, and the men of his place shall help him with silver, and gold, and goods, and cattle, together with the voluntary offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the chiefs of the families of Juda and Benjamin arose, and the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit the Lord stirred up to go up to build the house of the Lord that <i>is</i> in Jerusalem. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And all that were round about strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with cattle, and with presents, besides the voluntary offerings.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Cyrus Restores the Holy Vessels<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And king Cyrus brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had brought from Jerusalem, and put in the house of his god. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Cyrus king of the Persians brought them out by the hand of Mithradates the treasurer, and he numbered them to Sasabasar, the chief man of Juda. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And this <i>is</i> their number: thirty gold basons, and a thousand silver basons, nine and twenty changes, thirty golden goblets, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and four hundred <i>and</i> ten double silver <i>vessels</i>, and a thousand other vessels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All the gold and silver vessels were five thousand four hundred, <i>even</i> all that went up with Sasabasar from the <i>place of</i> transportation, from Babylon to Jerusalem.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_chronicles/36.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 36"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 36" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezra/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezra 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezra 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>