1 En dit is hulle familiehoofde, met hulle geslagsregister, wat saam met my onder die regering van koning Artas sta uit Babel opgetrek het:
2 van die kinders van P¡nehas: Gersom; van die kinders van Itamar: Daniël; van die kinders van Dawid: Hattus,
3 van die kinders van Seg nja; van die kinders van P rhos: Sagar¡a, en saam met hom in die register opgeneem, aan manspersone, honderd en vyftig;
4 van die kinders van Pahat-Moab: Eljehoënai, die seun van Ser gja, en saam met hom twee honderd manspersone;
5 van die kinders van Sattu: Seg nja, die seun van Jah siël, en saam met hom drie honderd manspersone;
6 en van die kinders van Adin: Ebed, die seun van Jonatan, en saam met hom vyftig manspersone;
7 en van die kinders van Elam: Jesaja, die seun van At lja, en saam met hom sewentig manspersone;
8 en van die kinders van Sef tja: Seb dja, die seun van M¡gael, en saam met hom tagtig manspersone;
9 van die kinders van Joab: Ob dja, die seun van J,hiël, en saam met hom twee honderd en agttien manspersone;
10 en van die kinders van Bani: S,lomit, die seun van Jos¡fja, en saam met hom honderd en sestig manspersone;
11 en van die kinders van B,bai: Sagar¡a, die seun van B,bai, en saam met hom agt en twintig manspersone;
12 en van die kinders van Asgad: Johanan, die seun van Hakk tan, en saam met hom honderd en tien manspersone;
13 en van die kinders van Adon¡kam wat later gekom het, en dit was hulle name: Elif,let, Je‹-el en Sem ja, en saam met hulle sestig manspersone;
14 en van die kinders van Bigwai: Utai en Sabbud, en saam met hom sewentig manspersone.
15 En ek het hulle versamel by die rivier wat na Ahawa loop, en ons het daar drie dae laer opgeslaan; en ek het op die volk en die priesters ag gegee, maar van die kinders van Levi daar nie aangetref nie.
16 Daarom het ek Eliëser, Ariël, Sem ja en Âlnatan en Jarib en Âlnatan en Natan en Sagar¡a en Mesullam, die hoofde, en Jojarib en Âlnatan, die leraars, gestuur
17 en hulle bevel gegee aan Iddo, die hoof in die plek Kas¡fja; en ek het die woorde in hulle mond gelê wat hulle met Iddo, en sy broers, die tempelbediendes in die plek Kas¡fja, moes spreek, dat hulle vir ons dienaars vir die huis van onse God moes bring.
18 En hulle het vir ons, omdat die goeie hand van onse God oor ons was, verstandige manne uit die kinders van Magli, die seun van Levi, die seun van Israel, gebring, naamlik Ser,bja met sy seuns en sy broers, agttien;
19 en Has bja, en saam met hom Jesaja, van die kinders van Mer ri, sy broers en hulle seuns, twintig;
20 en van die tempelbediendes wat Dawid en die owerstes vir die diens van die Leviete gegee het, twee honderd en twintig tempelbediendes wat almal met hulle name aangewys was.
21 Toe het ek daar 'n vastyd uitgeroep aan die rivier Ahawa, om ons te verootmoedig voor die aangesig van onse God ten einde van Hom 'n voorspoedige reis te vra vir ons en ons families en al ons goed.
22 Want ek was skaam om van die koning 'n leër en perderuiters te vra om ons te help teen vyande op die pad, omdat ons met die koning gespreek en gesê het: Die hand van onse God is ten goede oor almal wat Hom soek, maar sy krag en sy toorn oor almal wat Hom verlaat.
23 So het ons dan gevas en onse God dit gevra, en Hy het ons verhoor.
24 Toe het ek van die priesterowerstes twaalf afgesonder: Ser,bja, Has bja en tien van hulle broers saam met hulle.
25 En ek het vir hulle die silwer en die goud en die voorwerpe afgeweeg, die offergawe aan die huis van onse God wat die koning en sy raadsmanne en sy vorste en die hele Israel wat aanwesig was, aangebied het.
26 En ek het in hulle hand afgeweeg: ses honderd en vyftig talente silwer en silwervoorwerpe van honderd talente, honderd talente in goud,
27 en twintig goue bekers van duisend darieke en twee mooi goudgeel voorwerpe van koper, kosbaar soos goud.
28 En ek het vir hulle gesê: Julle is heilig aan die HERE, en die voorwerpe is heilig, en die silwer en die goud is 'n vrywillige gawe aan die HERE, die God van julle vaders.
29 Waak daaroor en bewaar dit, totdat julle dit afweeg voor die owerstes van die priesters en die Leviete en die familie-owerstes van Israel in Jerusalem, in die vertrekke van die huis van die HERE.
30 Toe het die priesters en die Leviete die gewig van die silwer en die goud en die voorwerpe ontvang om dit na Jerusalem, na die huis van onse God te bring.
31 Daarna het ons weggetrek van die rivier Ahawa af op die twaalfde van die eerste maand, om na Jerusalem te gaan; en die hand van onse God was oor ons, sodat Hy ons gered het uit die hand van die vyand en die wat ons voorlê op die pad.
32 En ons het in Jerusalem aangekom en daar drie dae gebly.
33 En op die vierde dag is die silwer en die goud en die voorwerpe in die huis van onse God afgeweeg onder bewaring van die priester M,remot, die seun van Ur¡a, en by hom was Ele sar, die seun van P¡nehas, en by hulle Josabad, die seun van J,sua, en No dja, die seun van B¡nnu‹, die Leviete --
34 volgens getal en gewig van alles; en tegelykertyd is die hele gewig opgeskrywe.
35 Hulle wat uit die gevangenskap gekom het, die seuns van die ballingskap, het brandoffers gebring aan die God van Israel: twaalf bulle vir die hele Israel, ses en negentig ramme, sewe en sewentig lammers, twaalf bokke as sondoffer -- dit alles as brandoffer aan die HERE.
36 En hulle het die bevelskrifte van die koning gegee aan die landvoogde van die koning en die goewerneurs wes van die Eufraat, en die het die volk en die huis van God ondersteun.
1 Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.
2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;
3 Of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed a hundred and fifty males.
4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
6 And of the sons of Adin, Ebed, the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
7 And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah; the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
8 And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.
9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
10 And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and sixty males.
11 And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
12 And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan, the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten males.
13 And of the sons of Adonikam, the last, whose names were Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.
14 And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
15 And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.
16 Then I sent for Eliezer and Ariel and Shemaiah and Elnathan Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechariah and Meshullam, all responsible men; and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise men.
17 And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.
18 And by the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;
19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
20 And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.
21 Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.
22 For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.
23 So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.
24 So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
25 And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:
26 Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold,
27 And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.
28 And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
29 Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.
30 So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.
31 Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was on us, and he gave us salvation from our haters and those who were waiting to make an attack on us by the way.
32 And we came to Jerusalem and were there for three days.
33 And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites;
34 All was handed over by number and by weight: and the weight was put on record at that time.
35 And those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to the Lord.
36 And they gave the king's orders to the king's captains and the rulers across the river, and they gave the people and the house of God the help which was needed.