seventh

So the priests, and the Leuites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities: And when the seuenth moneth came, the children of Israel were in their cities.

And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the Congregation, both of men and women, and all that could heare with vnderstanding, vpon the first day of the seuenth moneth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. that vnderstood in hearing.

And they found written in the Law whith the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in boothes, in the feast of the seuenth moneth:

1611 marginal noteHeb. by the hand of.

1611 marginal noteLeuit. 23.34. deut. 16.13.

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day, to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holyday, and that wee would leaue the seuenth yeere, and the exaction of euerie debt.

1611 marginal noteHeb. euery hand.

1611 marginal noteExod. 20.10. leui. 23.3. deut. 5.12. nehem. 13.23.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 15.2. leuit. 25.4.

¶ On the seuenth day, when the heart of the King was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seuen chamberlens that serued in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

1611 marginal noteOr, Eunuches.

So Esther was taken vnto king Ahasuerus, into his house royall, in the tenth moneth (which is the moneth Tebeth) in the seuenth yeere of his reigne.

So Hananiah the prophet died the same yeere, in the seuenth moneth.

¶ Now it came to passe in the seuenth moneth, that Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah the sonne of Elishamah of the seede royall, and the princes of the king, euen tenne men with him, came vnto Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam to Mizpah, and there they did eate bread together in Mizpah.

This is the people whom Nebuchad-rezzar caried away captiue in the seuenth yeere, three thousand Iewes and three and twentie.

¶ And it came to passe in the seuenth yeere, in the fift moneth, the tenth day of the moneth, that certaine of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sate before me.