¹Kui seitsmes kuu kätte jõudis ja Iisraeli lapsed olid juba oma linnades, kogunes rahvas nagu üks mees Jeruusalemma.

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.

²Ja Jeesua, Joosadaki poeg, ja tema vennad preestrid ja Serubbaabel, Sealtieli poeg, ja tema vennad võtsid kätte ja ehitasid üles Iisraeli Jumala altari, et selle peal ohverdada põletusohvreid, nõnda nagu jumalamehe Moosese Seaduses on kirjutatud.

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.

³Nad ehitasid altari selle endisesse kohta, kuigi maa elanikud olid nende vastu vaenulikud; ja nad ohverdasid selle peal Issandale põletusohvreid, hommikusi ja õhtusi põletusohvreid.

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.

⁴Ja nad pidasid lehtmajadepüha, nagu oli ette kirjutatud, ja ohverdasid igapäevaseid põletusohvreid vastaval arvul, nagu igaks päevaks oli määratud;

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;

⁵ja seejärel korralisi põletusohvreid, noorkuu- ja kõigi Issanda pühitsetud pühade ohvreid, ja kõigi nende ohvreid, kes tõid Issandale vabatahtliku ohvri.

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.

⁶Seitsmenda kuu esimesest päevast alates hakkasid nad Issandale põletusohvreid ohverdama, kuigi Issanda templile ei olnud veel alust pandud.

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.

⁷Ja nad andsid raha kiviraiujaile ja puuseppadele, ning toitu, jooki ja õli siidonlastele ja tüüroslastele, et nad tooksid seedripuid Liibanonist mere äärde Jaafosse Pärsia kuninga Koorese loal, mis neile oli antud.

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.

⁸Ja teisel aastal pärast nende jõudmist Jumala koja juurde Jeruusalemma, teises kuus, tegid alguse Serubbaabel, Sealtieli poeg, ja Jeesua, Joosadaki poeg, ja nende muud vennad, preestrid ja leviidid ja kõik, kes vangist olid tulnud Jeruusalemma, ja seadsid kahekümneaastasi ja vanemaid leviite Issanda koja tööd juhatama.

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.

⁹Ja Jeesua, tema pojad ja vennad, Kadmiel ja tema pojad, Juuda järeltulijad, asusid nagu üks mees juhatama neid, kes tegid Jumala koja tööd; nõndasamuti Heenadadi pojad, nende pojad ja nende vennad leviidid.

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.

¹⁰Ja kui ehitajad Issanda templile alust panid, siis astusid ette ametirüüs preestrid pasunatega, ja leviidid, Aasafi pojad, simblitega, et Iisraeli kuninga Taaveti korra järgi Issandat kiita.

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.

¹¹Ja nad laulsid Issandat kiites ning tänades: 'Sest tema on hea, sest tema heldus kestab igavesti Iisraeli vastu!' Ja kogu rahvas tõstis suurt rõõmukisa Issandat kiites, et Issanda kojale oli alus pandud.

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.

¹²Aga paljud preestritest ja leviitidest ning perekondade peameestest, vanad, kes olid endist koda näinud, nutsid suure häälega, kui sellele kojale nende silma all alus pandi; ent paljud tõstsid rõõmuga hõisates häält.

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,

¹³Ja ükski ei suutnud vahet teha rõõmuhõiskehääle ja nutuhääle vahel, sest rahvas tõstis suurt rõõmukisa ja hääl kostis kaugele.

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.