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Ezra 7:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the Lord, obey it, and teach  its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

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Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching.


‘Therefore,   everyone who hears these words   of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.


For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should desire instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Armies.


If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.


And you, Ezra, according to  God’s wisdom that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people in the region west of the Euphrates who know the laws of your God and to teach anyone who does not know them.


They will teach your ordinances to Jacob and your instruction to Israel; they will set incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.


Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this desire for ever in the thoughts of the hearts of your people, and confirm their hearts towards you.


#– #came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses,  which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested  because the hand of the Lord his God was on him.


But you are to proclaim things consistent with sound teaching.


Then Hezekiah encouraged  , all the Levites who performed skilfully before the Lord. They ate at the appointed festival for seven days, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.


However, some good is found in you, for you have eradicated the Asherah poles from the land and have determined in your heart to seek God.’


Rehoboam did what was evil, because he did not determine in his heart to seek the Lord.


Samuel told them, ‘If you  are returning to the Lord   with all your heart,  get rid of the foreign gods  and the Ashtoreths that are among you, set your hearts on the Lord, and worship only him.  Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.’


Proclaim these things; encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard  you.


An overseer,  therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible,  respectable, hospitable,  able to teach,


I wrote the first narrative, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach


Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.


‘Blessed   are those who wash their robes,   so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.


Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


As for you, if you redirect your heart and spread out your hands to him in prayer –


This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the Lord’s commands and statutes for Israel:





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