The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Chester]

Ezra 7:4

The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:3 (NIV)

the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:4 (NIV)

the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

 

[Chester]

Ezra 7:3 (NIV)


the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

Ha! Look before you post! I beat you! Unless we are going backwards now!

Ezra 7:5 KJV

The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezra 7:6 (KJV)
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:7 (ASV)

And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:8 (ASV)

And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezra 7:9 (King James 2000 Bible)
For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:10 (ASV)

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:11 (ASV)

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezra 7:12 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth. And now

 

[CharliRenee]

Ezra 7:13 NASB

I have issued a decree that any of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:14 (NASB)

Forasmuch as you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:15 (NASB)

and to bring the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezra 7:16 (ERV)
and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:17 (NIV)

With this money be sure to buy bulls, rams and male lambs,together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and sacrifice them on the altar of the temple of your God in Jerusalem.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:18 (NIV)

You and your fellow Israelites may then do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold, in accordance with the will of your God.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezra 7:19 (ERV)
And the vessels that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezra 7:20 (KJV)
And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.

 

[Deade]

Ezra 7:21 (KJV)

And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,