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Ezra 2:58

Tree of Life Version

All the Temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants—392.

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As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,

even their children who remained in the land after them whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy utterly, on them Solomon imposed forced labor until this day.

The first to settle on their property in their towns were Israelites, kohanim, Levites and the Temple servants.

the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the sons of Ami.

The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their family connection or their ancestry whether they were from Israel:

Some of Bnei-Yisrael and some of the kohanim, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the sanctuary servants also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

and the Temple servants living on the Ophel made repairs up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.

All the Temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants—392.

I purchased male and female servants and had other servants who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than all my predecessors in Jerusalem.

“Yes, let them live,” the leaders said further, “but let them chop wood and draw water for the entire community.” So the leaders decreed concerning them.

Now therefore, you are cursed, and you will never cease to be servants, wood-choppers and water-carriers for the House of my God.”

On that day Joshua made them wood-choppers and water-carriers for the community, and for the altar of Adonai in the place which He would choose. So it is to this day.




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