1 Esdras from the Apocrypha of The Set-Apart Bible. Read free with the Sacred Names (Yahweh, Yahshua, Elohim) and audio narration.
1 And Josias held the feast of the passover in Jerusalem unto his Adonai, and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the first month;
2 Having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in long garments, in the temple of Adonai.
3 And he spake unto the Levites, the holy ministers of Israel, that they should hallow themselves unto Adonai, to set the holy ark of Adonai in the house that king Solomon the son of David had built:
4 And said, Ye shall no more bear the ark upon your shoulders: now therefore serve Adonai your Elohim, and minister unto his people Israel, and prepare you after your families and kindreds,
5 According as David the king of Israel prescribed, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the temple according to the several dignity of the families of you the Levites, who minister in the presence of your brethren the children of Israel,