1وفي السنة الاولى لكورش ملك فارس عند تمام كلام الرب بفم ارميا نبّه الرب روح كورش ملك فارس فاطلق نداء في كل مملكته وبالكتابة ايضا قائلا
1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
2هكذا قال كورش ملك فارس. جميع ممالك الارض دفعها لي الرب اله السماء وهو اوصاني ان ابني له بيتا في اورشليم التي في يهوذا.
2“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3من منكم من كل شعبه****ليكن الهه معه ويصعد الى اورشليم التي في يهوذا فيبني بيت الرب اله اسرائيل. هو الاله. الذي في اورشليم.
3Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
4وكل من بقي في احد الاماكن حيث هو متغرب فلينجده اهل مكانه بفضة وبذهب وبامتعة وببهائم مع التبرع لبيت الرب الذي في اورشليم
4Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”
5فقام رؤوس آباء يهوذا وبنيامين والكهنة واللاويون مع كل من نبّه الله روحه ليصعدوا ليبنوا بيت الرب الذي في اورشليم.
5Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.
6وكل الذين حولهم اعانوهم بآنية فضة وبذهب وبامتعة وببهائم وبتحف فضلا عن كل ما تبرع به
6All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
7والملك كورش اخرج آنية بيت الرب التي اخرجها نبوخذناصّر من اورشليم وجعلها في بيت آلهته.
7Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
8اخرجها كورش ملك فارس عن يد مثرداث الخازن وعدّها لشيشبصّر رئيس يهوذا.
8even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
9وهذا عددها. ثلاثون طستا من ذهب والف طست من فضة وتسعة وعشرون سكينا
9This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
10وثلاثون قدحا من ذهب واقداح فضة من الرتبة الثانية اربع مئة وعشرة والف من آنية اخرى.
10thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.
11جميع الآنية من الذهب والفضة خمسة آلاف واربع مئة. الكل اصعده شيشبصّر عند اصعاد السبي من بابل الى اورشليم
11All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up, when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.