Then comma&ubar;ded kyng Darius
that searche shoulde be made in
þe; lybrary of the kinges treasure
house, whych lay at Babilon.
noteSo at Egbathanis in a castel
þt; lieth in the lande of the Medes, note there was
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Darius.
founde a boke, and in it was there an acte
wrytten after this maner: In the first year of
kyng Cirus, commaunded the same king Cirus
to buylde þe; house of God at Ierusal&ebar;, in
þe; place where the sacryfyce is made, ∧ to lay
þe; foundaci&obar; to beare thre skore cubites height
∧ thre skore cubytes bredth, ∧ thre walles of
roughe stones, and one walle of tymber, and
the exp&ebar;ces shalbe geuen of the kinges house.
And the goulde and syluer vessel of the house
of God (whiche Nabuchodonozor toke oute
of the temple at Ierusalem, ∧ brought vnto
Babilon) shalbe restored agayne, that they
maye be brought vnto the temple at Ierusalem
to their place into the house of God.
Get you farre fr&obar; them therfore, thou Thathanai
captayne beyond the water, ∧ Stharbuzanai,
B ∧ youre councelers whiche are beyonde
the water, get ye awaye from th&ebar;. Let
th&ebar; worcke in the house of God, that the captayne
of the Iewes and their Elders maye
buylde the house of God in his place. I haue
commaunded also, what shalbe done to the
Elders of Iuda for the buyldyng of þe; house
of God, that there shall dilygently be taken
of the Kinges goodes, euen of the rentes beyonde
the water, ∧ geuen vnto the men, and
that they be not hindred. And yf they haue
nede of calues, l&abar;bes, or goates, for the burntofferynge
vnto the God of heauen, wheate,
salt, wyne and oyle, after the custome of the
pryestes at Ierusalem, there shalbe geuen tem
daylie as is accordyng: ∧ se that this be done
without faute, that they maye offre swete sauoures
vnto the God of heauen, and praye
for the kinges lyfe ∧ for his children. This c&obar;maundement
haue I geuen. And what man
soeuer he be that altereth these wordes, there
shall a beame be taken from his house, ∧ set
vp, and he shalbe hanged theron, ∧ his house
shalbe prysed for the deade.
But the God that dwelleth in heauen, destroye
al kinges and people,
C that put to their
hande to alter ∧ to breake doune the house of
God at Ierusalem. I Darius haue c&obar;maunded,
that this he diligently done.
Then Thathanai the captayne beyond the
water, and Stharbuzanai with their counselers,
to wh&obar; king Darius had sent) dyd theyr
diligence. And the Elders of the Iewes builded,
and they prospered thorowe the Prophesyenge
of Aggeus the Prophet and Zachari
the sonne of Ado: and they buylded, and set
vp the worcke, accordinge to the commaundemente
of the God of Israel, and after the c&obar;ma&ubar;dement
of Cyrus, Darius ∧ Arthaxerses
kinges of Persia. And they perfourmed
the house vnto the thirde daye of the moneth
Adar, that was in the sixte year of the raigne
of kinge Darius.
noteAnd the children of Israel, the pryestes, þe;
Leuites, ∧ the other children of the captiuyte
helde the dedicaci&obar; of the house of God with
ioye, and offered at the dedycaci&obar; of the house
of God, an hundred calues, two h&ubar;dred lambes,
four hundred goates: and for the synofferinge
for all Israell twelue he goates, accordinge
to the nombre of the trybes of Israel,
and set the priestes in their courses and the Leuites
in their offyces to minister vnto God,
which is at Ierusalem, as it is wrytten in the
boke of Moses.
D And the chyldren of the captyuyte helde
Passeouer vp&obar; the fourtenth daye of the fyrst
moneth: for the preastes and Leuites had purifyed
th&ebar; selues, so that they were all cleane
as one man, ∧ kylled Passeouer for all þe; chyldren
of the captyuite, and for theyr brethren
the preastes, and for them selues. And þe; chyldren
of Israel which were come agayne out
of captyuite, ∧ al such as had separated them
selues vnto them from the filthynesse of the
Heathen in the lande, to seke the Lorde God
of Israel, ate and helde the feast of vnleu&ebar;ded
bread seuen dayes with ioye: for the Lord had
made them glad, and turned the herte of the
king of Assur vnto them, so that the handes
were strenghthed in the worcke of the house
of God, whiche is the God of Israel.
T. Matthew [1549], The Byble, that is to say all the holy Scripture: In whych are c&obar;tayned the Olde and New Testamente, truely ∧ purely tr&abar;slated into English, ∧ nowe lately with greate industry ∧ dilig&ebar;ce recognised. [Edited by Edmund Becke.] (Imprinted by... Ihon Daye [etc.] and William Seres [etc.], London) [word count] [B05000].
