From the first transportation to Babylon, when they carried away Daniel's mother, and she brought him forth, unto the second year of Cyrus the Persian, are 70 years, during which the children of Israel were captive, according to the prophecy of holy Jeremiah the prophet.
2And the children of Israel began to build the House of God, in the days of Zerubbabel, of Josiah the son of Zadok, and of Ezra the scribe.
3And they were 46 years building it, until it was finished, as it is written in the holy Gospel — that they were 46 years building it.
4Moreover, scribes arranged tables of genealogy, and recorded the names of the men; yet they could not record the names of the women because they knew them not, except very few.
5Yet, O my brethren, I have watched much, and I have searched long in the books of the Greeks and of the ancient Hebrews, and I have found the name of the women written in them.
6For I found that when the children of Israel came from Babylon, Zerubbabel begat Abiud of Maukab the daughter of Ezra the scribe; and Abiud took to wife Tsamita the daughter of Zadok the high priest, and she bare Eliakim.
7And Eliakim married Hasbia, the daughter of Aram, and brought forth Azar.
8And Azar begat Zadok of Lebaida. And Zadok took to wife Kalem, the daughter of Waikam, who gave birth to Akim.
9And Akim married Asbaidi, who gave birth to Eliud. And Eliud married Awad, the daughter of Gasulius, who gave birth to Azar.
10And Azar married Hayat, daughter of Walha, who brought forth Mattan; and Mattan married Sabartyal the daughter of Phulius, who brought forth twins, namely, Jacob and Joachim.
11And Jacob married Gadat, the daughter of Eleazar, who gave birth to Joseph the betrothed of Mary. And Joachim, the brother of Jacob, married Hannah the daughter of Makah; and she brought forth the pure Virgin Mary; and of her was born Christ. The former scribes could not find a good lineage for the Virgin and her father or kindred; therefore the Jews crucified Christ, taunted and mocked Him, and said to Him, “Show us the fathers of Mary the Virgin and her people, and what is her genealogy.”
12Therefore did they blaspheme her and Christ, yet henceforth shall the mouth of those unbelieving Jews be closed; and they shall know that Mary is of the seed of David the king, and of that of the line of the patriarch Abraham.
13Moreover, the unbelieving Jews had no registers to guide them aright, neither did they know, how the lines of kindred ran at first, inasmuch as the law and the prophets were three times burnt [out] from them.
14The first time in the days of Antiochus, who burnt down the whole House [of God]; The second time they burnt those books in the days of Qablar the great king of Mosul;
15And the third time they burnt the books was at the transportation by king Nabukadanatsor when Abumirdan came and burnt the House of God, and destroyed the walls of Jerusalem; when Simeon the priest asked of him the store of books, and he gave them to him.