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I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.

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highlighted Ezra 8:1 ESV

These are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

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"And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.

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highlighted Ezra 7:22 ESV

up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

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highlighted Ezra 7:19 ESV

The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.

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highlighted Ezra 7:17 ESV

With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem.

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highlighted Ezra 7:15 ESV

and also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,

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highlighted Ezra 7:13 ESV

I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.

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highlighted Ezra 7:10 ESV

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

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highlighted Ezra 7:8 ESV

And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

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highlighted Ezra 7:6 ESV

this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

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highlighted Ezra 7:1-5 ESV

Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,

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finished reading Esther 6, Esther 7, Esther 8, Esther 9, Esther 10 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king....

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highlighted Esther 10:3 ESV

For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.

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highlighted Esther 10:1 ESV

King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

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highlighted Esther 9:26 ESV

Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,

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highlighted Esther 9:22 ESV

as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

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highlighted Esther 9:21 ESV

obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

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highlighted Esther 9:17-18 ESV

This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.

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highlighted Esther 9:13 ESV

And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows."

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