Source and licence
share: attributiongreekSource: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Esdras B 12; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
Attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
The text
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| 12:1 | Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν μηνὶ Νισὰν ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ Ἀρσαθερθὰ βασιλεῖ καὶ ἦν οἶνος ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ, καὶ ἔλαβον τὸν οἶνον καὶ ἔδωκα τῷ βασιλεῖ, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἕτερος ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, |
| 12:2 | καὶ εἶπέν μοι ὁ βασιλεύς Διὰ τί τὸ πρόσωπόν σου πονηρόν, καὶ οὐκ εἶ μετριάζων; οὐκ ἔστιν τοῦτο εἰ μὴ πονηρία καρδίας. καὶ ἐφοβήθην πολὺ σφόδρα, |
| 12:3 | καὶ εἶπα τῷ βασιλεῖ Ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ζήτω. διὰ τί οὐ μὴ γένηται πονηρὸν τὸ πρόσωπόν μου, διότι ἡ πόλις, οἶκος μνημείων πατέρων μου, ἠρημώθη καὶ αἱ πύλαι αὐτῆς κατεβρώθησαν ἐν πυρί; |
| 12:4 | καὶ εἶπέν μοι ὁ βασιλεύς Περὶ τίνος τοῦτο συνζητεῖς; καὶ προσηυξάμην πρὸς τὸν θεὸν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, |
| 12:5 | καὶ εἶπα τῷ βασιλεῖ Εἰ ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα ἀγαθόν, καὶ εἰ ἀγαθυνθήσεται ὁ παῖς σου ἐνώπιόν σου ὥστε πέμψαι αὐτὸν εἰς Ἰουδά, εἰς πόλιν μνημείων πατέρων μου, καὶ ἀνοικοδομήσω αὐτήν. |
| 12:6 | καὶ εἶπέν μοι ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ἡ παλλακὴ ἡ καθημένη ἐχόμενα αὐτοῦ Ἕως πότε ἔσται ἡ πορεία σου, καὶ πότε ἐπιστρέψεις; καὶ ἠγαθύνθη ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ ἀπέστειλέν με, καὶ ἔδαωκα αὐτῷ ὄρον. |
| 12:7 | καὶ εἶπα τῷ βασιλεῖ Εἰ ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα ἀγαθόν, ἐπιστολὰς δότω μοι πρὸς τοὺς ἐπάρχους πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ, ὥστε παραγαγεῖν με ἕως ἔλθω ἐπὶ Ἰουδά, |
| 12:8 | καὶ ἐπιστολὴν ἐπὶ Ἀσὰφ φύλακα τοῦ παραδείσου ὅς ἐστιν τῷ βασιλεῖ, ὥστε δοῦναί μοι ξύλα στεγάσαι τὰς πύλας καὶ εἰς τὸ τεῖχος τῆς πόλεως καὶ εἰς οἶκον ὃν εἰσελεύσομαι εἰς αὐτόν. καὶ ἔδωκέν μοι ὁ βασιλεύς, ὡς χεὶρ θεοῦ ἡ ἀγαθή. |
| 12:9 | Καὶ ἦλθον πρὸς τοὺς ἐπάρχους πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ, καὶ ἔδωκα αὐτοῖς τὰς ἐπιστολὰς τοῦ βασιλέως· καὶ ἀπέστειλεν μετʼ ἐμοῦ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀρχηγοὺς δυνάμεως καὶ ἱππεῖς. |
| 12:10 | καὶ ἤκουσεν Σαναβαλλὰτ Ἁρωνεί, καὶ πονηρὸν αὐτοῖς ἐγένετο ὅτι ἥκει ἄνθρανπος ζητῆσαι ἀγαθὸν τοῖς υἱρῖς Ἰσραήλ. |
| 12:11 | καὶ ἦλθον εἰς Ἰερουσαλήμ, καὶ ἤμην ἐκεῖ ἡμέρας τρεῖς. |
| 12:12 | καὶ ἀνέστην νυκτὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἄνδρες ὀλίγοι μετʼ ἐμοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἀπήγγειλα ἀνθρώπῳ τί ὁ θεὸς δίδωσιν εἰς καρδίαν μου τοῦ ποιῆσαι μετὰ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, καὶ κτῆνος οὐκ ἔστιν μετʼ ἐμοῦ εἰ μὴ τὸ κτῆνος ᾧ ἐγὼ ἐπιβαίνω ἐπʼ αὐτῷ. |
| 12:13 | καὶ ἐξῆλθον ἐν πύλῃ τοῦ γωληλὰ καὶ πρὸς στόμα πηγῆς τῶν συκῶν καὶ εἰς πύλην τῆς κοπρίας· καὶ ἤμην συντρίβων ἐν τῷ τείχει Ἰερουσαλὴμ ὃ αὐτοὶ καθαιροῦσιν, καὶ πύλαι αὐτῆς κατεβρώθησαν πυρί. |
| 12:14 | καὶ παρῆλθον ἐπὶ πύλην τοῦ Αἰνὰ καὶ εἰς κολυμβήθραν τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ οὐκ ἦν τόπος τῷ κτήνει παρελθεῖν ὑποκάτω μου. |
| 12:15 | καὶ ἤμην ἀναβαίνων ἐν τῷ τείχει χειμάρρους νυκτός, καὶ ἤμην συντρίβων ἐν τῷ τείχει· καὶ ἤμην ἐν πύλῃ τῆς φάραγγος, καὶ ἐπέστρεψα. |
| 12:16 | καὶ οἱ φυλάσσοντες οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τί ἐπορεύθην καὶ τί ἐγὼ ποιῶ· καὶ τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις καὶ τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν καὶ τοῖς ἐντίμοις καὶ τοῖς καταλοίποις τοῖς ποιοῦσιν τὰ ἔργα ἔως τότε οὐκ ἀπήγγειλα. |
| 12:17 | καὶ εἶπα πρὸς αὐτοὺς Ὑμεῖς βλέπετε τὴν πονηρίαν ἐν ᾗ ἐσμεν ἐν αὐτῇ, πῶς Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἔρημος καὶ αἱ πύλαι αὐτῆς ἐδόθησαν πυρί· δεῦτε καὶ διοικοδομήσωμεν τὸ τεῖχος Ἰερουσαλήμ, καὶ οὐκ ἐσόμεθα ἔτι ὄνειδος. |
| 12:18 | καὶ ἀπήγγειλα αὐτοῖς τὴν χεῖρα τοῦ θεοῦ ἥ ἐστιν ἀγαθὴ ἐπʼ ἐμέ, καὶ πρὸς λόγους τοῦ βασιλέως σὓς εἶπέν μοι· καὶ εἶπα Ἀναστῶμεν καὶ οἰκοδομήσωμεν. καὶ ἐκραταιώθησαν αἱ χεῖρες αὐτῶν εἰς ἀγαθόν. |
| 12:19 | καὶ ἤκουσεν Σαναβαλλὰτ ὁ Ἁρωνεὶ καὶ Τωβιὰ ὁ δοῦλος Ἀμμωνεὶ καὶ Γῆσαμ ὁ Ἀραβεί, καὶ ἐξεγέλασαν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἦλθον ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς καὶ εἶπαν Τί τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε ; ἢ ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα ὑμεῖς ἀποστατεῖτε ; |
| 12:20 | καὶ ἐπέστρεψα αὐτοῖς λόγον καὶ εἶπα αὐτοῖς Ὁ θεὸς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, αὐτὸς εὐοδώσει ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἡμεῖς δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ καθαροί, καὶ οἰκοδομήσωμεν· καὶ ὑμῖν οὐκ ἔστιν μερὶς καὶ δικαιοσύνη καὶ μνημόσυνον ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ. |
Provenance
- title
- Esdras B 12 (Greek, Swete)
- dialect
- greek
- source
- Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Esdras B 12; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
- licence
- CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
- share
- attribution
- attribution
- Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
- file
- Bible/Old Testament/Esdras B/12.greek.swete.L0.txt
L0 witness
Cite as:
Esdras B 12 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Esdras B 12; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/esdras-b/12.greek.swete/. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
What the layers are
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.