2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 196
8 : E Z R A
Heb.
77 lambs.
12 he goats
for a sin
offering,
Ezra 8:31.
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offering, twelve, all of them a
sacrifice to Yahuah.
67 And they delivered the
king’s commandments unto
the king’s stewards, and to the
governors of Coelesyria and
Phoenicia, and they honored
the people, and the Temple of
Elohim.
68 Now when these things
were done, the rulers came
unto me, and said:
Ezra’s Prayer
69 The nation of Israel,
the princes, the priests, and
Levites have not put away
from them the strange people
of the land: nor the pollutions
of the Gentiles, to wit, of
the Canaanites, Hittites,
Pheresites, Jebusites, and the
Moabites, Egyptians, and
Ezra 9:2.
Edomites.
70 For both they, and their
sons, have married with their
daughters, and the holy seed is
mixed with the strange people
of the land, and from the
beginning of this matter, the
rulers and the great men have
been partakers of this iniquity.
71 And as soon as I had heard
these things, I rent my clothes,
and the holy garment, and
pulled off the hair from off
my head, and beard, and sat
down sad, and very heavy.
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72 So all they that were then
moved at the word of Yahuah
Elohim of Israel, assembled
unto me, while I mourned for
the iniquity: but I sat still full
of heaviness, until the evening
sacrifice.
73 Then rising up from the fast
with my clothes and the holy
garment rent, and bowing my
knees, and stretching forth my
hands unto Yahuah:
74 I said, O Yahuah, I am
confounded, and ashamed
before your face;
75 For our sins are multiplied
above our heads, and our
ignorances have reached up Greek. have
abounded.
unto heaven.
76 For ever since the time of
our fathers we have been and
are in great sin, even unto this
day:
77 And for our sins and our
fathers, we with our brethren,
and our kings, and our priests,
were given up unto the Kings
of the earth, to the sword, and
to captivity, and for a prey
with shame, unto this day.
78 And now in some measure
has mercy been shown unto
us, from you, O Yahuah, that
there should be left us a root,
and a name, in the place of
your Sanctuary.
79 And to discover unto us a
light in the house of Yahuah
our Elohim, and to give
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