and Keperes of the holy
treasure.
1 And these are the Priestes and Leuites, that came vp
with Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel, and Iosue: Saraia,
Ieremias, note Esdras,
2 Amaria, Melluch, Hartus.
3 Sebenias,
-- --
Nehemias.
Rheum, Merimuth,
4 Addo Genthon, Abia,
5 Miamin,
Madia, Belga,
6 Semeia, and Ioiarib, Idaia, Sellum, Amoc,
Helcias,
7 Idaia. These are the Princes of the Priestes, and
their bretheren in the daies of Iosue.
8 Moreouer the Leuites,
Iesua, Bennui, Cedmihel, Sarebia, Iuda, Mathanias, ouer the
hymnes they & their bretheren:
9 And Becbecia, and Hannia
and their bretheren euerie one in his office.
10 And note Iosue begatte
Ioacim, and Ioacim begate Eilasib, and Eliasib begate
Ioiada,
11 and Ioiada begate Ionathan, and Ionathan begate
Ieddoa.
12 And in the daies of Ioacim the Priestes and Princes
of the families were. Of Saraia, Maraia: Of Ieremias, Hanania:
13 Of Esdras, Mosellam: and of Amaria, Iohanan:
14 Of
Milicho, Ionathan: of Sebenia, Ioseph:
15 Of Haram, Edna: Of
Maraioth, Helci:
16 Of Adaia, Zacharia: Of Genthon, Mosollam,
17 Of Abia, Zechri: Of Miamin and Moadia, Phelti:
18 Of
Belga, Sammua: of Semaia, Ionathan:
19 Of Ioiarib, Mathanai:
of Iodaia, Azzi:
20 Of Sellai, Sellai: Of Amoc, Heber:
21 Of
Helcias, Hasebia: Of Idaia, Nathanael.
22 The Leuites in the
daies of Eliasib, and Ioaiada, and Iohanan, and Ieddoa, written
Princes of the families, and the Priestes in the reigne of
Darius the Persian.
23 The children of Leui, Princes of the
families, written in the booke of Cronicles of daies, and
vnto the daies of Ionathan the sonne of Eilasib.
24 And the
Princes of the Leuites, Hasebia, Serebia, and Iosue the sonne
of Cedmihel: & their bretheren by their courses, to praise and
confesse according to the precept of Dauid the man of God,
and to waite equally in order.
25 Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia,
and Mosollam, Telmon, Accub, keepers of the gates
and of the entrances before the gates.
26 These were in the
daies of Ioacim the sonne of Iosue, the sonne Iosedec, and
in the daies of Nehemias the duke, and of Esdras the Priest,
and Scribe.
27 And in the dedication of the wal of Ierusalem
they sought Leuites out of al other places, to bring them into
Ierusalem, and to make the dedication and ioy in geuing of
thankes, and songue, and in cimbales, psalteries. and harpes.
28 And the children of the singing men were gathered together
out of the champaine about Ierusalem, and out of the
townes Nethuphati,
29 and from the house of Galgal, and
from the countries of Geba and Azmaueth: because the
singing men did build them selues villages round about Ierusalem.
30 And the Priestes and Leuites were cleansed, and
-- --
Nehemias.
they cleansed the people, and the gates, and the wall.
31 And
I made the Princes of Iuda, goe vp vpon the wal, and I sette
two great quyers of them that should praise. And they went
on the right hand vpon the wal to the gate of the dunghil.
32 And after them went Osaias, and the halfe part of the princes
of Iuda,
33 and Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam, Iudas, and
Beiamin, and Semeia, and Ieremias.
34 And of the childeren
of the Priestes with trumpetes, Zacharias the sonne of Ionathan,
the sonne of Semeia, the sonne of Nathania, the sonne
of michaia, the sonne Zechur, the sonne Asaph,
35 and his
bretheren Semeia, and Azareel, Malalai, Galalai, Maai, Nathanael,
and Iudas, and Hanani, with the instrumentes of the
songe of Dauid the man of God: and Esdras the scribe before
them in the gate of the fountayne.
36 And against them
there went vp in the stayers of the citie of Dauid, in the
rising of the wal aboue the house of Dauid, and vnto the gate
of waters toward the East.
37 And the second quyer of thankes
geuers went on the contrarie side, and I after it, and the
halfe part of the people vpon the wal, and aboue the tower of
the fornaces, & vnto the brodest wal,
38 and aboue the gate of
Ephraim, and aboue the old gate, and aboue the gate of fishes
and the towre of Hananeel, aud the towre of Emath, and
vnto the gate of the flocke: and they stood in the gate of the
watch,
39 and there stood two quyers of them that praysed in
the house of God, and I, and the halfe part of the magistrates
with me.
40 And the Priestes, Eliachim, Maasia, Miamin, Michea,
Elioenai, Zacharia, Hanania with trumpettes,
41 & Maasia,
and Semeia, and Eleazar, and Azzi, and Iohanan, and Melchia,
and Aelam, and Ezer. And the singing men sang alowd,
and Iezraia the ouerseer:
42 and they immolated in that day
great victimes, and reioyced: for God bad made them ioyful
with great ioy: yea their wiues also and childeren reioyced,
and the ioy of Ierusalem was heard far of.
43 They numbered
also in that day, men ouer the storehouses of the treasure, for
the libamentes, and for the first fruites, and for the tythes,
that the princes of the citie might bring in by them in the
honour of thankesgiuing, Priestes and Leuites: because Iuda
was made ioyful, in the Priestes & Leuites standing by.
44 And
they kept the watch of their God, and the obseruance of
expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to
the precept of Dauid, and of Salomon his sonne,
45 because in
-- --
Nehemias.
the daies of Dauid, and Asaph from the beginning there were
princes appoynted of the singing men in song praysing, and
confessing to God.
46 And al Israel, in the daies of Zorobabel,
and in the daies of Nehemias gaue portions to the singing
men, and to the porters day by day, and they note sanctified the
Leuites, and the Leuites sanctified the children of Aaron.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
