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CASIPHIA

Place to which Ezra sent for Levites when he realized that his company of returnees from the exile lacked persons qualified for temple service (Ezr 8:17). Casiphia was perhaps Ctesiphon on the Tigris River near modern Baghdad.

Show passage in OET: EZR 8:17

OET-RV EZR 8:17

17 I commanded them to go to Ido, the leader at Kasifya, and I told them to tell Ido and his relatives (temple servants in Kasifya) to send us some Levites who would go to Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to serve in our god’s temple.

OET-LV EZR 8:17

17 And them to ˊIddō the_leader in_Kāşifyāʼ/(Casiphia) the_place I_put in_mouth_of_their words/messages to_speak to ˊIddō his/its_brother the in_Kāşifyāʼ/(Casiphia) the_place to_bring to/for_us servants for_the_house_of our_god_of_our.

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