Ketuvim 751 Ezra 6, 7 without fail; |17| And offered at the |5| Ben Avishua, ben |10| That they may offer dedication of this Beis Elohim Pinchas, ben Eleazar, sacrifices of sweet savours one hundred bulls, two ben Aharon HaKohen unto the Elohei Shomayim, hundred rams, four hundred HaRosh; and pray for the chayyei lambs; and for a sin offering |6| This Ezra went up from Melech, and of his banim. for kol Yisroel, twelve he-goats, Babylon, and he was a sofer |11| Also I have made a according to the number of mahir expert in the Torat decree, that whosoever shall the tribes of Yisroel. Moshe, which Hashem Elohei alter this word, let timber be |18| And they installed the Yisroel had given, and pulled down from his bais, kohanim in their divisions, HaMelech granted him all his and being set up, let him be and the Levi'im in their request, for the yad impaled hanging dead courses, for the Avodas Hashem Elohav was upon thereon; and let his bais be Elohim, which is at him. made a dunghill for this. Yerushalayim, as it is written |7| And there went up some |12| And the Elohim that in the Sefer Moshe. of the Bnei Yisroel, and of the hath caused Shmo to dwell |19| And the Banim of the Kohanim, and the Levi'im, there destroy all Melech or Am Golus kept the Pesach upon and the singers, and the that shall lift up their hand to the 14th day of the first month. gatekeepers, and the Netinim, alter and to destroy this Beis |20| For the Kohanim and unto Yerushalayim, in the Elohim which is at the Levi'im made themselves seventh year of Yerushalayim. I Daryavesh tahor, all of them were Artachshasta [Artaxerxes] have issued a decree; let it be tehorim, and slaughtered the HaMelech [i.e., 458 B.C.E.]. done with speed. Pesach for all the Banim of |8| And he came to |13| Then Tatnai, governor of the Golus, and for their Yerushalayim in the fifth Beyond-the-River [Euphrates], brethren the Kohanim, and month, which was in the Shetar-Boznai, and their for themselves. seventh year of the Melech. companions, according to that |21| And the Bnei Yisroel, |9| For upon the first day of which Daryavesh the Melech which were come again out of the first month he began to go had sent, so they did speedily. Golus, and all such as had up from Babylon, and on the |14| And the leaders of the separated themselves unto first day of the fifth month he Yehudim built, and they them from the tum'a of the came to Yerushalayim, for the prospered through the Goyim of ha'aretz, to seek good yad Elohav was upon prophesying and preaching of Hashem Elohei Yisroel, did him. Chaggai HaNavi and eat, |10| For Ezra had prepared Zecharyah ben Iddo. And they |22| And kept the Chag his lev to study the Torat built, and finished it, Matzot seven days with Hashem, and to do it, and to according to the simchah; for Hashem had teach in Yisroel chok and commandment of the Elohei made them joyful, and turned mishpat. Yisroel, and according to the the lev Melech Assyria unto |11| Now this is the copy of commandment of Koresh them, to strengthen their the letter that HaMelech (Cyrus), and Daryavesh hands in the work of the Beis Artachshasta gave unto Ezra (Darius), and Artachshasta Elohim, Elohei Yisroel. HaKohen, HaSofer, even a (Artaxerxes) Melech Paras Sofer of the divrei mitzvot (Persia). Hashem, and of his chukkot |15| And this Beis Now after these things, for Yisroel: [Hamikdash] was finished on in the reign of |12| Artachshasta, Melech the third day of the month 7Artachshasta Melech Melachim, unto Ezra Kohen, Adar, which was in the sixth Paras (Persia), Ezra ben Sofer of the law of Elohei year of the reign of Daryavesh Serayah ben Azaryah ben Shomayim, Greetings! And the Melech [i.e., March 12, 515 Hilkiyah, now B.C.E.]. |2| Ben Shallum, ben Tzadok, |13| I issued a decree, that all |16| And the Bnei Yisroel, the ben Achituv, they of the Am Yisroel, and of Kohanim, and the Levi'im, |3| Ben Amaryah, ben Kohanim and Levi'im, in my and the rest of the Banim of Azaryah, ben Merayot, kingdom, which are minded of the Golus, kept the dedication |4| Ben Zerachyah, ben Uzzi, their own freewill to go up to of this Beis Elohim with joy. ben Bukki, Yerushalayim, go with thee.