ngers, and the porters, and the Nathinites, and
ministers of the house of this God, that you have no authority to impose
toll or tribute, or custom upon them.

7:25. And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in
thy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the people,
that is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of thy God,
yea and the ignorant teach ye freely.

7:26. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the
king diligently, judgment shall be executed upon him, either unto death,
or unto banishment, or to the confiscation of goods, or at least to
prison.

7:27. Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in
the king's heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in
Jerusalem,

7:28. And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his
counsellors, and all the mighty princes of the king: and I being
strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was upon me, gathered
together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

1 Esdras Chapter 8

The companions of Esdras. The fast which he appointed. They bring the
holy vessels into the temple.

8:1. Now these are the chief of families, and the genealogy of them, who
came up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

8:2. Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of
the sons of David, Hattus.

8:3. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos, Zacharias, and with
him were numbered a hundred and fifty men.

8:4. Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of Zareha, and with
him two hundred men.

8:5. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and with him three
hundred men.

8:6. Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty
men.

8:7. Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and with him
seventy men.

8:8. Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael, and with him
eighty men.

8:9. Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two
hundred and eighteen men.

8:10. Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and with him a
hundred and sixty men.

8:11. Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him
eight and twenty men.

8:12. Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and with him a
hundred and ten men.

8:13. Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the last: and these are their
names: Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Samaias, and with them si