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Ezra 3:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When the seventh month arrived,  and the Israelites were in their towns, the people gathered as one in Jerusalem.

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Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.


Now the entire group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but instead they held everything in common.


‘Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and trumpet blasts   #– #a sacred assembly.


Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts,


For I will then restore pure  speech to the peoples so that all of them may call on the name of the  Lord and serve him with a single purpose.


They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should dwell in shelters during the festival of the seventh month.


The priests, Levites, gatekeepers, temple singers, some of the people, temple servants, and all Israel settled in their towns. When the seventh month  came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,


All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba  and from the land of Gilead came out, and the community assembled as one body before the Lord at Mizpah.


‘This is to be a permanent statute  for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practise self-denial  and do no work,  both the native and the foreigner  who resides among you.


all the people gathered together  at the square in front of the Water Gate.  They asked the scribe Ezra  to bring the book of the law of Moses  that the Lord had given to Israel.


‘All your males are to appear three times a year  before the Lord your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.


The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold coins, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.





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