Ezra · Chapter 7

[ edit] Aftir forſoþe þat þe wal is maad vp, and I ſette þe ȝate leuys, and noumbride þe porteres, and þe ſingeris, and þe Leuitis, I comaundede to Aneny, my broþer, and to Ananye, prince of þe hous of Jeruſalem; he forſoþe as a ſoþfaſt man, and dredende God more þan oþere was ſeen; and I ſeide to hem, Þe ȝatis of Jeruſalem be þei not opened vnto þe hete of þe ſunne; and whan ȝit I ſtod neeȝh, þe ȝatis ben cloſid and ſtoppid. And I ſette keperis of þe dwelleris of Jeruſalem, eche bi þer whilis, and eche aȝen his hous. Forſoþe þe cite was myche brod and gret, and þe puple litil in þe middel of it, and þer weren not houſis bild.

God forſoþe ȝaf in myn herte, and I gaderede togidere þe moſt wrſhipeful men, and þe maiſter iugis, and þe comun, þat I noumbre hem; and I fond þe boc of þe noumbring of hem, þat hadden ſteȝid vp firſt. And it is founde writen in it, Þeſe þe ſones of þe prouince, þat ſteȝeden vp fro þe caitifte of tranſmigracioun, þe whiche Nabugodonoſor, king of Babiloine, hadde tranſlatid; and þei ben turned aȝeen in to Jeruſalem and in to Jude, eche in to his cite, þat camen wiþ Sorobabel; Joſue, Neemias, Azarias, Raamias, Naanum, Mardocheus, Beþſar, Mesfaraþ, Beggai, Naum, Banaa.

Þe noumbre of þe men of þe puple of Irael; þe ſones of Faros, two þouſend and hundrid and two and ſeuenti; þe ſonus of Safaie, þre hundrid foure ſcore and two; þe ſonus of Area, ſixe hundrid two and fifti; þe ſonus of Faeþ Moab, of þe ſonus of Joſue and of Joab, two þouſend eiȝte hundrid and eiȝtetene; þe ſonus of Elam, a þouſend eiȝte hundrid and foure and fifti; þe ſonus of Zechua, eiȝte hundrid and fiue and fourti; þe ſonus of Zachai, ſeuene hundrid and ſixty; þe ſonus of Bennui, ſixe hundrid and eiȝte and fourti; þe ſonus of Ebai, ſixe hundrid and eiȝte and twenti; þe ſonus of Aſgad, two þouſend þre hundrid and two and twenti; þe ſonus of Aſonycham, ſixe hundrid and ſeuene and ſixti; þe ſonus of Bagoamy, two þouſend and ſeuene and ſixti; þe ſonus of Adin, ſixe hundrid and fiue and fifti; þe ſonus of Aſer, ſone of Ezechie, eiȝte and twenti; þe ſonus of Aſem, þre hundrid and eiȝte and twenti; þe ſonus of Beþſai, þre hundrid and foure and twenti; þe ſonus of Aref, an hundrid and ſeuene and twenti; þe ſonus of Salaon, fiue and nynti; þe men of Beþlem and of Neþufa, an hundrid foure ſcore and eiȝte; men of Anatot, an hundrid and eiȝte and twenti; men of Beþſamoþ, two and fourti; men of Cariaþiarim, Sefira, and Beroþ, ſeuene hundrid and þre and fourti; men of Ramaa and of Gabaa, ſixe hundrid and oon and twenti; men of Machinas, two hundrid and two and twenti; men of Beþel and of Hai, an hundrid and þre and twenti; men of þe toþer Nebo, two and fifti; men of þe toþer Elam, a þouſend two hundrid and foure and fifti; þe ſonus of Arem, þre hundrid and twenti; þe ſonus of Jericho, þre hundrid and fiue and fourti; þe ſonus of Joiadid and of Anon, ſeuene hundrid and oon and twenti; þe ſonus of Senaa, þre þouſend nyne hundrid and þretti; preſtus, þe ſonus of Joiada, in þe hous of Joſue, nyne hundrid and foure and ſeuenti; þe ſonys of Emmer, a þouſend and two and fifti; þe ſonus of Faſſur, a þouſend two hundrid ſeuene and fourti; þe ſones of Arem, a þouſend and ſeuentene; Leuitus, ſonus of Joſue and of Gadimel, ſonus of Odina, ſeuenti and foure; ſingeres, ſonus of Aſaf, an hundrid and ſeuene and fourti; porteres, ſonus of Sellum, ſonus of Aþer, ſonus of Thelmon, ſonus of Accub, ſonus of Accita, ſonus of Sobai, an hundrid and eiȝte and þretti; ſodeknes, ſonus of Soa, ſonus of Asfa, ſonus of Thebaoþ, ſonus of Cheros, ſonus of Sicca, ſonus of Fado, ſonus of Lebana, ſonus of Agaba, ſonus of Selmon, ſonus of Anon, ſonus of Jeddel, ſonys of Gair, ſonus of Raaia, ſonus of Raſym, ſonus of Nechoda, ſonus of Jeſem, ſonus of Aſa, ſonus of Faſcha, ſonus of Beſai, ſonus of Minum, ſonus of Nefuſym, ſonis of Bechue, ſonus of Acufa, ſonus of Aſſur, ſonus of Belloþ, ſonus of Meida, ſonus of Arſa, ſonus of Berchos, ſonus of Cizara, ſonus of Thema, ſonus of Nezia, ſonus of Aþifa, ſonus of þe ſeruauns of Salomon, ſonus of Soþai, ſonus of Soforeþ, ſonus of Ferida, ſonus of Jachala, ſonus of Dalchon, ſonns of Jeddel, ſonus of Safacia, ſonus of Atchil, ſonus of Focereþ, þat was born of Abaim, ſone of Amon; alle þe ſodeknes, and þe ſonus of þe þrallis of Salamon, þre hundrid and two and twenti.

Þeſe ben þat ſteȝeden vp of Themelaþ, Thelarſa, Cherub, Addo, and Emmer, and þei myȝten not ſhewe þe hous of þer fadirs, and þer ſed, wheþer of Iſrael þei weren; ſonus of Dalaia, ſonus of Thobia, ſonus of Neþoda, ſixe hundrid and two and fourti; and of þe preſtis, ſonus of Abia, ſonus of Achos, ſonus of Berſellai, þat toc a wif of þe doȝtris of Berſellai Galadite, and is clepid bi þe name of hem; þeſe ſoȝten þe ſcripture of þer genelogie, and founde not, and ben caſt out fro preſþod. And Aþerſaþa ſeide to þem, þat þei ſhulden not eten of þe holi þingus of halewis, to þe time þat þer rijſe a taȝt and lerned preſt.

Al þe multitude as o man, two and fourti þouſend þre hundrid and ſixti, wiþ oute þe ſeruauns and þe hand wymmen of hem, þat weren ſeuen þouſend þre hundrid and ſeuene and þretti; and among hem ſingeres and ſingreſſis two hundrid and fiue and fourti. Þe hors of hem, ſeuene hundrid and þre and þretti; þe camailis of hem, foure hundrid and fiue and þretti; þe aſſis of hem, ſixe þouſend ſeuene hundred and þretti; þe mulis of hem, two hundrid and fiue and fourti. Summe forſoþe of þe princis of þe meynes ȝeuen expenſis in to þe werc of God; Aþerſaþa ȝaf in to þe treſorie, of gold, dragmys a þouſend, fifty violis, preſtus cotus fiue hundrid and þretti.

And of þe princis of þe meines þer ȝeuen in to þe treſorie of þe werk, of gold, dragmis twenti þouſend, and of ſiluer, two þouſend beſauntus and two hundrid. And þat þat ȝaf þe toþer puple, of gold, dragmis twenti þouſend, and of ſiluer, beſauntus two þouſend, and preſtus cotus ſixti and ſeuenn. Forſoþe þe preſtus, and Leuitus, and þe porteris, and ſingeris, and þe toþer comun, and þe ſodeknys, and al Irael dwelten in þer cites. And þe ſeuenþe moneþe of þe feſte of tabernaclis was comen vnder Eſdra and Neemie; þe ſonus forſoþe of Irael weren in þer cites.