written

Wherein was written; It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu sayth it, that thou and the Iewes thinke to rebell: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their King, according to these words.

1611 marginal noteOr, Geshem, ver. 2.

¶ And my God put into mine heart, to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, & the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogie. And I found a register of the genealogie of them which came vp at the first, and found written therein;

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 that they should publish and proclaime in all their cities, and in Ierusalem, saying, Goe foorth vnto the mount, and fetch Oliue branches, and Pine branches, and Myrtle branches, and Palme branches, and branches of thicke trees, to make boothes, as it is written.

And we cast the lots among the priests, the Leuites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed, yeere by yeere, to burne vpon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

1611 marginal noteSee num. 28.&29.chap. and Exod. 23.19. and Leuit. 19.23.

Also the first-borne of our sonnes, and of our cattell (as it is written in the lawe) and the firstlings of our heards, and of our flockes, to bring to the house of our God, vnto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

1611 marginal noteExod. 13.2. Leuit. 23.17. num. 15.19. and 18.12. &c.

The sonnes of Leui, the chiefe of the fathers, were written in the booke of the Chronicles, euen vntill the dayes of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib.

1611 marginal note1.Chro. 9.

¶ On that day they read in the booke of Moses in the audience of the people, and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the Congregation of God for euer,

1611 marginal noteHeb. there was read.

1611 marginal noteHeb. eares

1611 marginal noteNum. 22.5. deut. 23.3.