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1:1

The Koresh Proclamation and the Reactivation of the Restoration Grid

Now in the first year of Koresh king of Persia, that the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might be fulfilled, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 stirred up the spirit of Koresh king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

1:2

The Decree of the Celestial Sovereign

"Thus saith Koresh king of Persia, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and He hath charged me to build Him a house at Yarushalayim, which is in Yahudah."

1:3

"Who is there among you of all His people? his Alahiym be with him, and let him go up to Yarushalayim, which is in Yahudah, and build the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of Yashar'al, (He is the Alahiym,) which is in Yarushalayim."

1:4

The Mandate of Terrestrial Support

"And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of Alahiym that is in Yarushalayim."

1:5

The Response of the Calibrated Remnant

Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Yahudah and Binyamiyn, and the priests, and the Lawiytes, with all them whose spirit Alahiym had stirred, to go up to build the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 which is in Yarushalayim.

1:6

And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.

1:7

The Retrieval of the Portal Technology

Also Koresh the king brought forth the vessels of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, which Nabukadnetzar had brought forth out of Yarushalayim, and had put them in the house of his lo alahiym;

1:8

Chawahn those did Koresh king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mathradath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Shashbatzar, the prince of Yahudah.

1:9

The Inventory of the High-Frequency Elements

And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

1:10

Thirty basins of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

1:11

The Total Sum of the Return

All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Shashbatzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babal unto Yarushalayim.