¹And these are the chief fathers, and their genealogy, who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

¹Huan hiaite a pipute uh inkote laka a lupenta ahi ua, huan hiai, kumpipa Artaksarsi vaihawm laia kei hon jui huaite khangthusuina ahi.

²Of the children of Phinehas, Gershom; of the children of Ithamar, Daniel; of the children of David, Hattush;

²Phineha tapate lakah, Gersom: Ithamar tapate lakah Daniel: David tapate lakah, Hattus,

³of the children of Shecaniah, of the children of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.

³Sikania tapate lakah; Paros tapate lakah, Zekaria: huan amah toh pasalte khangthusuinaa suikhawmte za khat leh sawmnga hi.

⁴Of the children of Pahath-Moab, Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.

⁴Pahath-moab tapate lakah, Eliehoenai Zerahia tapa; huan amah toh pasal za nihte.

⁵Of the children of Shechaniah, the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.

⁵Sikania tapate lakah, Jahaziel tapa; huan amah toh pasal sawmngate.

⁶And of the children of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.

⁶Huan Adin tapate lakah, Ebed Jonathan tapa; huan amah toh pasal sawmngate.

⁷And of the children of Elam, Isaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.

⁷Huan Elam tapate lakah, Jesai Athalia tapa; huan amah toh pasal sawmsagihte.

⁸And of the children of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him eighty males.

⁸Huan Sephatia tapate, Mikael tapa Zebadia; huan amah toh pasal sawmgukte.

⁹Of the children of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

⁹Joab tapate lakah, Obadia Jehiel tapa; huan amah toh pasal za nih leh sawm leh giatte.

¹⁰And of the children of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah, and with him a hundred and sixty males.

¹⁰Huan, Selomith tapate lakah, Josiphia tapa; huan amah toh pasal za khat leh sawmgukte.

¹¹And of the children of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males.

¹¹Huan Bebai tapate lakah, Bebai tapa Zekaria; huan amah toh pasal sawmnih leh giatte.

¹²And of the children of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him a hundred and ten males.

¹²Huan Azgad tapate lakah, Hakkatan tapa Johanan; huan amah toh pasal ja leh sawmte.

¹³And of the children of Adonikam, the last ones, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.

¹³Huan Adonika tapate lakah, tuate a tawpna; huai hiaite a min uh ahi, Eliphelte, Jeuel, leh Simaia leh, amau toh pasal sawmgukte.

¹⁴And of the children of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.

¹⁴Huan Bigvai tapate, Uthai leh Zabbud; huan amau toh pasal sawmsagihte.

¹⁵And I gathered them together at the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days; and I surveyed the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there.

¹⁵Huan Ahava phaa luang luipi tanin amaute ka kaikhawma; huan huailaiah ni thum ka giak uh: huan mite ka en vialviala, siampute, huaiah Levi tapate kuamah ka mu kei hi.

¹⁶And I sent for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men, and for Joiarib and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

¹⁶Huan Eliezer te, Simaia te, Elnathan te, Jarib te, Elnathan, Nathan te, Zekaria te, Misullam te, mi kizen tungtuan ka thukhaka; sinsakmite Joiarib leh Elnathan leng.

¹⁷And I gave them a commission to Iddo the chief, at the place Casiphia, and I put words in their mouths to say to Iddo [and] his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

¹⁷Huan kasiphia muna Iddo hausapa kiang ah amau ka sawl khiaa; Iddo kiangah leh, Iasiphia muna a unaute nithinimte kiang a gen ding uh ka hilha, I Pathian in ua dinga masemmi ei adia hontonpih dingin.

¹⁸And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely, Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

¹⁸Huchiin I tung ua I Pathian khut hoih a om dung juiin pasal khat lungelsiam, Mahli tapate laka, Levi tapa, Israel tapa ei dingin a honpi ua; Siribia a tapa te leh a unaute, sawmlehgiat toh;

¹⁹and Hashabiah, and with him Isaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;

¹⁹Huan Hasabia, amah toh Merari tapate laka Jesai toh, a unaute leh a tapate uh, sawmnih toh;

²⁰and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were expressed by name.

²⁰Huan Nithinim mite, David leh lalten Levi mite nasepna dingin a piakte uh, za nih leh sawmnih Nithinim mite: a vek un mina genkhiak ahi uhi.

²¹And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

²¹Huan huailaiah, Ahava lui ah, anngawl ka phuanga, huchia eia ding leh I nauneute ading leh, I neih ilamte tengteng adia lampi tang amah laka zong dinga I Pathian uh maa ei leh ei I kiniamkhiak theihna dingin.

²²For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way; for we had spoken to the king saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his anger is against all them that forsake him.

²²Lampia melma dou dinga ei honpanpih dia kumpipa kianga sepaih pawl leh sakol tungtuangmi nget lah ka zum ngala: hoihna dinga, amah zong tengteng tungah I Pathian khut a oma; himahleh amah mangngilhte tengteng siatna dingin a thlhihtheihna leh a thangpaihna a om hi, chia, kumpipa kianga thu I gen tak jiakin.

²³And we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he was entreated of us.

²³Huchiin an I ngawl ua hiai dingin I Pathian I ngen ngutngut ua: huchiin amah I ngenzou uh.

²⁴And I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

²⁴Huailaiin siampute laka pipente laka sawmlehnih, Sirebia, Hasabia, leh a kiang ua om a unaute uh laka sawm ka sehkhena,

²⁵and I weighed to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the heave-offering for the house of our God, which the king and his counsellors and his princes, and all Israel present, had offered.

²⁵Amau adingin dangka leh dangkaeng leh, tuiumbelsuan, kumpipa leh a thuhilhmite leh, a lalte leh huailaia om Israel tengteng lat ka buksaka:

²⁶And I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver; and silver vessels a hundred talents, [and] of gold a hundred talents;

²⁶A khut sung mahmah uah dangka talent za guk leh sawmnga leh dangka tuiumbelsuan talent za ka buk saka; dangkaeng lakah talent ja;

²⁷and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.

²⁷Huan dangkaeng noubem sawmnih, darik sang khat lakah; huan dal hoih mitanthei, dangkaeng bang a manpha bel nih.

²⁸And I said to them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah; the vessels also are holy; and the silver and the gold is a voluntary offering to Jehovah the God of your fathers.

²⁸Huan a kiang uah, TOUPA adin na siangthou ua, tuiumbelsuante a siangthou uh; huan dangka leh dangkaeng TOUPA, na pipute uh Pathian adia utthua thillat ahi uh.

²⁹Watch and keep [them] until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.

²⁹TOUPA in dantante, Jerusalema siampute laka lupente leh, Levi mite leh, Israel pipute inkote lalte maa huaite na buk masiah uh, kiveng unla, amaute kem un, a chi a.

³⁰And the priests and the Levites received by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

³⁰Huchiin siampute leh Levi miten dangka leh dangkaeng leh, tuimbelsuante buk a la ua, I Pathian in ua Jerusalema a puak ding un.

³¹And we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

³¹Huchihlaiin Jerusalem lama pai dingin, a kha khatna a ni sawm leh nih niin Ahava lui akipan I pawt khia ua: huan I Pathian khut I tunguah a oma, melma khut leh lampia bukmi akipan aman hontankheta hi.

³²And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

³²Huan Jerusalem I hongtung ua huaiah ni thum I om uh.

³³And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Urijah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites:

³³Huan a ni li niin dangka leh dangkaeng leh tuiumbelsuante I Pathian in uah Uria siampu tapa Meremoth khutah bukin a oma; a kiangah Phineha tapa Eleazar a om; huan a kiang uah Jesua tapa Jozabad leh, Binnui tapa Noadia, Levi mite a om uh;

³⁴the whole by number and by weight; and all the weight was written down at that time.

³⁴A zah leh a gikdan a vekin: huchiin huai laiin a gikdan tengteng gelh ahi.

³⁵The children of those that had been carried away, who had come out of the captivity, presented burnt-offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all for a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

³⁵Pimanga akipana hongpai, saltanna taten Israel Pathian kiangah halmang thillatte, bawngtal sawmlehnih Israel tengteng adingin, belamtal sawmkua leh guk, belamnou sawmsagih leh sagih, keltal khelhna thillat dingin sawmlehnih a lan uhi: hiaite tengteng TOUPA adinga halmang thillat ahi.Huan kumpipa thukhenmite kiang leh, tuipi khena ukpipate kiangah kumpipa thupiakte a pekhia uh: huan mite leh Pathian in a panpih uhi.

³⁶And they delivered the king's edicts to the king's satraps, and to the governors on this side the river. And they furthered the people and the house of God.

³⁶Huan kumpipa thukhenmite kiang leh, tuipi khena ukpipate kiangah kumpipa thupiakte a pekhia uh: huan mite leh Pathian in a panpih uhi.