1ولما استهل الشهر السابع وبنو اسرائيل في مدنهم اجتمع الشعب كرجل واحد الى اورشليم.
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.
2وقام يشوع بن يوصاداق واخوته الكهنة وزربابل بن شألتئيل واخوته وبنوا مذبح اله اسرائيل ليصعدوا عليه محرقات كما هو مكتوب في شريعة موسى رجل الله
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.
3واقاموا المذبح في مكانه لانه كان عليهم رعب من شعوب الاراضي واصعدوا عليه محرقات للرب محرقات الصباح والمساء.
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.
4وحفظوا عيد المظال كما هو مكتوب ومحرقة يوم فيوم بالعدد كالمرسوم أمر اليوم بيومه.
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;
5وبعد ذلك المحرقة الدائمة وللاهلّة ولجميع مواسم الرب المقدسة ولكل من تبرع بمتبرع للرب.
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.
6ابتدأوا من اليوم الاول من الشهر السابع يصعدون محرقات للرب وهيكل الرب لم يكن قد تأسس.
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.
7واعطوا فضة للنحاتين والنجارين ومأكلا ومشربا وزيتا للصيدونيين والصوريين ليأتوا بخشب ارز من لبنان الى بحر يافا حسب اذن كورش ملك فارس لهم
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.
8وفي السنة الثانية من مجيئهم الى بيت الله الى اورشليم في الشهر الثاني شرع زربابل بن شألتئيل ويشوع بن يوصاداق وبقية اخوتهم الكهنة واللاويين وجميع القادمين من السبي الى اورشليم واقاموا اللاويين من ابن عشرين سنة فما فوق للمناظرة على عمل بيت الرب.
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.
9ووقف يشوع مع بنيه واخوته قدميئيل وبنيه بني يهوذا معا للمناظرة على عاملي الشغل في بيت الله وبني حيناداد مع بنيهم واخوتهم اللاويين.
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.
10ولما أسّس البانون هيكل الرب اقاموا الكهنة بملابسهم بابواق واللاويين بني آساف بالصنوج لتسبيح الرب على ترتيب داود ملك اسرائيل.
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.
11وغنوا بالتسبيح والحمد للرب لانه صالح لان الى الابد رحمته على اسرائيل. وكل الشعب هتفوا هتافا عظيما بالتسبيح للرب لاجل تأسيس بيت الرب.
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.
12وكثيرون من الكهنة واللاويين ورؤوس الآباء الشيوخ الذين رأوا البيت الاول بكوا بصوت عظيم عند تأسيس هذا البيت امام اعينهم. وكثيرون كانوا يرفعون اصواتهم بالهتاف بفرح.
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,
13ولم يكن الشعب يميز هتاف الفرح من صوت بكاء الشعب لان الشعب كان يهتف هتافا عظيما حتى ان الصوت سمع من بعد
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.