The First Book of Esdras
9 chapters · 2 h 47 min · MP3
Israel's story retold from Josiah's great Passover through the fall of Jerusalem, the return under Cyrus, and the rebuilding of the temple — with the famous contest of the three bodyguards, where a young Zerubbabel argues that truth is the strongest thing on earth, and wins the king's leave to go home.
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Text: Adapted for listening from the King James Version Apocrypha (1611), public domain — lightly modernized for the ear; names and verse order kept.
Narration: Digital narration — a locked cast of synthetic character voices, performed with emotion. No human narrator was recorded.
The text is the public-domain edition named above, lightly modernized for listening. Each chapter opens with a one-line Timeline written for this edition; that line is commentary, not scripture, and it says so.
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