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Ezra 7:10

The Scriptures 2009

For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Torah of יהוה, and to do it, and to teach laws and right-rulings in Yisra’ĕl.

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Proclaim the Word! Be urgent in season, out of season. Convict, warn, appeal, with all patience and teaching.


“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does them, shall be like a wise man who built his house on the rock,


“For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of יהוה of hosts.


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


But his delight is in the Torah of יהוה, And he meditates in His Torah day and night.


And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your Elah that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your Elah. And teach those who do not know them.


The Torah of יהוה is perfect, bringing back the being; The witness of יהוה is trustworthy, making wise the simple;


“They teach Your right-rulings to Ya‛aqoḇ, and Your Torah to Yisra’ĕl. They put incense before You, and a complete ascending offering on Your slaughter-place.


“O יהוה Elohim of Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yisra’ĕl, our fathers, guard this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and prepare their heart toward You.


Taw יהוה, You have heard the desire of the lowly ones; You prepare their heart; You incline Your ear,


this Ezra came up from Baḇel. And he was a scribe, skilled in the Torah of Mosheh, which יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl had given. And the sovereign gave him all he asked, according to the hand of יהוה his Elohim upon him.


But you, speak what is fitting for sound teaching:


That I might walk in a broad place, For I have sought Your orders;


My heart is firm, O Elohim, My heart is firm; I sing and praise.


And Ḥizqiyahu spoke to the heart of all the Lĕwites, those having good understanding concerning יהוה. So they ate during the appointed time, seven days, slaughtering slaughterings of peace offerings and making confession to יהוה Elohim of their fathers.


“But good matters are found in you, in that you have removed the Ashĕroth from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek Elohim.”


And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek יהוה.


And Shemu’ĕl spoke to all the house of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “If you return to יהוה with all your hearts, then put away the foreign mighty ones and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts for יהוה, and serve Him only, so that He delivers you from the hand of the Philistines.”


Speak these matters, urge, and convict with all authority. Let no one despise you.


An overseer, then, should be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, sensible, orderly, kind to strangers, able to teach,


The first account I made, O Theophilos, of all that יהושע began both to do and to teach,


“And you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and you shall guard and do these laws.


“Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.


“Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.


If you would prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him;


And this is the copy of the letter that Sovereign Artaḥshashta gave Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe in the words of the commands of יהוה, and of His laws to Yisra’ĕl:


I have inclined my heart to do Your laws Forever, to the end.





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