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Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
