¹Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

¹V prvem letu Cira, kralja v Perziji, je GOSPOD, da bi se dopolnila beseda GOSPODOVA, govorjena po ustih Jeremijevih, obudil duha Cira, kralja v Perziji, da je dal razglasiti po vsej kraljevini svoji, pa tudi pismeno naznaniti:

²Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

²Tako pravi Cir, kralj Perzije: Vsa kraljestva zemlje mi je dal GOSPOD, Bog nebes, in mi je naročil, naj mu zgradim hišo v Jeruzalemu, ki je na Judovem.

³Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

³Kdor je med vami iz vsega ljudstva njegovega, s tem bodi njegov Bog, in pojdi gori v Jeruzalem na Judovem in zidaj hišo GOSPODA, Boga Izraelovega (on je Bog!), ki je v Jeruzalemu.

⁴And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

⁴Vsakemu torej, ki je preostal na kateremkoli mestu, kjer biva kot tujec, naj mu pomagajo ljudje tega kraja s srebrom in zlatom, z blagom in z živino, razen tega, kar dobrovoljno darujejo za hišo Božjo, ki je v Jeruzalemu!

⁵Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

⁵Nato se vzdignejo prvaki očetovin Judovih in Benjaminovih ter duhovniki in leviti, vsi, katerih duha je bil obudil Bog, da pojdejo gori gradit hišo GOSPODOVO, ki je v Jeruzalemu.

⁶And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.

⁶In vsi, ki so bili okoli njih, so jim podpirali roke s srebrnimi potrebščinami, z zlatom, z blagom, z živino in z dragotinami, razen vsega, kar so dali dobrovoljno.

⁷Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;

⁷Cir pa je velel prinesti ven posode hiše GOSPODOVE, ki jih je bil Nebukadnezar pripeljal iz Jeruzalema ter jih je dejal v svojega boga hišo;

⁸Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

⁸te je dal Cir, kralj Perzije, prinesti po Mitredatu, zakladničarju, in jih je odštel Sesbazarju [Kaldejsko ime Zerubabelu.], vojvodu Judovemu.

⁹And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

⁹In to je njih število: trideset zlatih skled, tisoč srebrnih skled, devetindvajset nožev;

¹⁰Thirty basins of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

¹⁰trideset zlatih čaš, srebrnih čaš druge vrste štiristo in deset in drugih posod tisoč.Vseh zlatih in srebrnih posod je bilo pet tisoč in štiristo. Te vse je prinesel Sesbazar s seboj, ko so šli iz ujetništva v Babilonu gori v Jeruzalem.

¹¹All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

¹¹Vseh zlatih in srebrnih posod je bilo pet tisoč in štiristo. Te vse je prinesel Sesbazar s seboj, ko so šli iz ujetništva v Babilonu gori v Jeruzalem.