¹重建祭壇到了七月，各城裡的以色列人，如同一人，都在耶路撒冷聚集。

¹When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

²約薩達的兒子耶書亞和作祭司的親族，撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和他的兄弟都起來，建築以色列　神的祭壇，為要照著神人摩西律法書上所寫的，在祭壇上獻燔祭。

²Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

³因為他們懼怕當地的居民，就在殿的原有根基上建立祭壇，在祭壇上向耶和華獻燔祭，就是早晚的燔祭。

³In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

⁴他們又按照律法上所記載的守住棚節，每天照著規定的數目獻上當天的燔祭。

⁴They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

⁵另外，又獻常獻的燔祭、月朔獻的燔祭和一切耶和華的聖節所獻的燔祭，以及甘心樂意的人向耶和華所獻的甘心祭。

⁵and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to Yahweh.

⁶從七月一日起，他們就開始向耶和華獻燔祭，但是那時耶和華的殿還沒有立定根基，

⁶From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.

⁷他們把銀子給石匠和木匠，把食物、飲料和油給西頓人和推羅人，叫他們照著波斯王古列所允許的，把香柏木從黎巴嫩經海運送到約帕。

⁷They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.

⁸重建聖殿眾人來到耶路撒冷　神的殿以後，第二年二月，撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯、約薩達的兒子耶書亞和他們其餘的兄弟，就是祭司、利未人和所有從被擄之地回到耶路撒冷的人，就開始動工建造；又委派二十歲以上的利未人，監督耶和華殿的工程。

⁸Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.

⁹耶書亞和他的兒子及兄弟，甲篾和他的兒子，就是何達威雅的子孫（“何達威雅的子孫”或譯：“猶大人”），同心協力監督建造　神殿的工人，有利未人希拿達的兒子和兄弟協助他們。

⁹Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.

¹⁰建築工人奠立耶和華殿根基的時候，祭司都穿上禮服，拿著號筒，亞薩子孫的利未人，都拿著響鈸，站在自己的位置，按照以色列王大衛所定的儀式讚美耶和華。

¹⁰When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

¹¹他們讚美和稱謝，向耶和華歌唱，說：“耶和華是至善的，他向以色列人所施的慈愛永遠長存。”他們讚美耶和華的時候，眾人都大聲呼喊，因為耶和華殿的根基已經奠定。

¹¹They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house of Yahweh had been laid.

¹²很多年老的祭司、利未人和族長，曾經見過先前的殿，眼見這殿的根基再次奠立，就放聲大哭，但也有許多人高聲歡呼，

¹²But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,

¹³以致分不清到底是歡呼聲或哭聲。因為眾人都大聲呼喊，這聲音在很遠的地方也可以聽見。

¹³so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.