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.

¹Huchia kha sagihna a hongtuna, khopitea Israel tate a om lai un, mite Jerusalem ah mi khat bangin a kikhawm khawm uh.

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.

²Huchiin Jozadak tapa Jesua leh, a unaute siampute leh, Sialtiel tapa Zerubbabel leh, a unaute, a ding ua, Pathian mi Mosi dana a kigelh banga, a tunga halmang thillatte lan dingin, Israel Pathian maitam a lam uhi.

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.

³Huan maitam a kiangakna tungah a tung ua; gamtea mite jiakin a tunguah lah launa a om ngala: huchiiin a tungah TOUPA adingin halmang thillatte a lan ua, jing leh nitaka halmang thillatte ngei.

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;

⁴Huan a kigelh bangin, biakbukte ankuangluina a bawl ua, a hihdingzahin niteng halmang thillatte, dan dungjuiin, ni tenga sepding kiphamoh bangin a lan ua;

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.

⁵Huan a nungin halmang thillat gige, kha thakte thillatte leh, hihsiangthoua om TOUPA ankuanglui sehkhiakte tengteng leh, TOUPA adia uttaka utthua thillat lan mi chiteng.

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.

⁶A kha sagih a ni khat ni akipanin TOUPA adingin halmang thillatte a lan pan ua: himahleh TOUPA biakin suangphum a kikoih nai kei hi.

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.

⁷Sum leng suangsekmite kiang leh khutsiammite kiangah a pia ua; Kura Persia kumpipa akipana phalna a muh bang ua tuipi a, Joppa tana Lebanon tang akipan sidar singte honla dingin, Zidon ate kiang leh, Tura ate kiangah, sa te, dawnding te, leh thaute a pia hi.

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.

⁸Huchiin a kha nihnaa, Jerusalema Pathian ina a hongtun uh a kum nihnain, Sialteil tapa Zerubbabel leh, Jozadak tapa Jesua leh, a unaute siampute laka te leh Levi mite leh, koltanna akipana Jerusalem hongpaite a kipan ua; Levimite a sep ua kum sawmniha upa leh a tunglam TOUPA in nasepnaa heutute hi dingin.

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.

⁹Huchiin Pathian ina nasemmite heu dingin, Jesua a tapate leh a unaute, Kadmiel leh a tapate, Juda tapate, a ding khawm ta uhi: Henadad tapate, a tapate uh leh a unaute uh Levi mite toh.

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.

¹⁰Huan inlammiten TOUPA biakin suangphum a koih lai un, Israel kumpipa David thupiak bangin, TOUPA phat dingin, siampute pengkulte toh a puan uh a silh sak ua, Levi mite Asaph tapate dakkhutette a guan uhi.

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.

¹¹Huchiin TOUPA phatna leh kipahna piaknain la a kisak sak chiat ua, Amah lah a hoih ngala, a chitna lah khantawnin Israel lamah a omgige ngala, Chiin. Huchiin nakpia kikouin mite tengteng a kikou ua, TOUPA a phat lai un, TOUPA in suangphum koiha a om jiakin.

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,

¹²Himahleh siampute leh Levi mite leh pipute inkote laka mi tampi, a mit ma mahmah ua hiai in suangphum a kikoih laia, tua in masa mute putekte, aw ngaih takin a kap khia ua; huan mi tampi nuamsain ngaihtakin a kikou uhi:Huchiin miten nuamsakna kikouna husa mite kahna husa toh a theikak theikei ua: mite lah ngaih takin a kikou un, a husa lah gamla piah a kiza ngala.

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.

¹³Huchiin miten nuamsakna kikouna husa mite kahna husa toh a theikak theikei ua: mite lah ngaih takin a kikou un, a husa lah gamla piah a kiza ngala.