From women they came; and women brought up the very men who plant the vineyards from which comes wine.

The Foundations of the Temple Laid

In the second year after their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerub′babel the son of She′altiel and Jeshua the son of Jo′zadak made a beginning, together with their brethren and the Levit′ical priests and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity;

Let all things prescribed in the law of God be scrupulously fulfilled for the Most High God, so that wrath may not come upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.

And those who had come back from captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams,

And now in some measure mercy has come to us from thee, O Lord, to leave to us a root and a name in thy holy place,

And all that has happened to us has come about because of our evil deeds and our great sins. For thou, O Lord, didst lift the burden of our sins

so let the leaders of the multitude stay, and let all those in our settlements who have foreign wives come at the time appointed,