Chapter 4 _{53 And that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away.54 He wrote also concerning. the charges, and the priests' vestments wherein they minister;55 And likewise for the charges of the Levites, to be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem builded up.56 And he commanded to give to all that kept the city pensions and wages.57 He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, the same charged he also to be done, and sent unto Jerusalem.58 Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,59 And said, From thee cometh victory, from thee cometh wisdom, and thine is the glory, and I am thy servant.60 Blessed art thou, who hast given me wisdom: for to thee I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers.61 And so he took the letters, and went out, and came unto Babylon, and told it all his brethren.62 And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty63 To go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of musick and gladness seven days.}

Chapter 5 _{1 After this were the principal men of the families chosen according to their tribes, to go up with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.2 And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical [instruments] tabrets and flutes.3 And all their brethren played, and he made them go up together with them.4 And these are the names of the men which went up, according to their families among their tribes, after their several heads.5 The priests, the sons of Phinees the son of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedec, the son of Saraias, and Joacim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, out of the kindred of Phares, of the tribe of Judah;6 Who spake wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month.7 And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they dwelt as strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon.8 And they returned unto Jerusalem, and to the other parts of Jewry, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus, Nehemias, and Zacharias, and Reesaias, Enenius, Mardocheus. Beelsarus, Aspharasus, Reelius, Roimus, and Baana, their guides.}