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Ezra 1:6-8
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Ezra 1:6-8
New English Translation
6 All their neighbors assisted them[a] with silver utensils,[b] gold, equipment, animals, and expensive gifts, not to mention[c] all the voluntary offerings.
7 Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the Lord’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed[d] in the temple of his gods. 8 King Cyrus of Persia entrusted[e] them to[f] Mithredath[g] the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar[h] the leader of the Judahite exiles.[i]
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- Ezra 1:6 tn Heb “strengthened their hands.”
- Ezra 1:6 tc The MT reads בִּכְלֵי־כֶסֶף (bikhle khesef, “with silver vessels”). However, part of the LXX manuscript tradition reads ἐν πᾶσιν ἀργυρίῳ (en pasin arguriō), which reflects an alternate Hebrew reading of בַּכֹּל־בַּכֶּסֶף (bakkol bakkesef, “everywhere, with silver”). The textual variant involves (1) simple omission of yod (י) between two words, a common scribal mistake; (2) haplography of the preposition bet (ב); and (3) an alternate vocalization tradition of the first term.
- Ezra 1:6 tn Heb “besides” or “in addition to.”
- Ezra 1:7 tn Heb “and he gave them.”
- Ezra 1:8 tn Heb “brought them forth.”
- Ezra 1:8 tn Heb “upon the hand of.”
- Ezra 1:8 sn A Persian name meaning “gift of Mithras.” See HALOT 656 s.v. מִתְרְדָת.
- Ezra 1:8 sn A Babylonian name with the probable meaning “Shamash protect the father.” See HALOT 1664-65 s.v. שֵׁשְׁבַּצַּר.
- Ezra 1:8 tn Heb “Sheshbazzar the prince to Judah”; TEV, CEV “the governor of Judah.”
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