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,

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’”

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put 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, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to 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.

⁹This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,

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

¹⁰thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one 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. Sheshbazzar brought all these up, when the captives were brought up from Babylon to 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.