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.

¹In ko se je približal sedmi mesec in so že bili sinovi Izraelovi v svojih mestih, tedaj se zbere ljudstvo kakor en mož v Jeruzalemu.

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.

²Tedaj vstane Jesua, sin Jozadakov, in bratje njegovi, duhovniki, in Zerubabel, sin Sealtielov, in bratje njegovi, in zgrade oltar Boga Izraelovega, da se darujejo na njem žgalne daritve, kakor je pisano v postavi Mojzesa, moža Božjega.

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.

³In postavili so oltar na njegovi podstavi, kajti strah jih je bilo zaradi ljudstev sosednjih dežel; in darovali so na njem žgalne daritve GOSPODU, žgalne daritve zjutraj in zvečer.

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;

⁴In praznovali so praznik šatorov, kakor je predpisano, in darovali žgalščine vsak dan po številu, soglasno s predpisom, kakor je bilo vsak dan obvezno.

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.

⁵In potem stalno žgalno daritev in daritve ob mlajih in ob vseh določenih praznikih GOSPODOVIH, ki so bili posvečeni, in daritve vsakega, ki je GOSPODU prinesel prostovoljno darilo.

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.

⁶Prvi dan sedmega meseca so začeli darovati žgalščine GOSPODU, ko še ni bila položena podstava templju GOSPODOVEMU.

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.

⁷In dali so denarja kamenosekom in tesarjem in živeža, pijače in olja tistim iz Sidona in iz Tira, da bi privažali cedrov les z Libanona na morje v Jafo, kakor jih je pooblastil Cir, kralj Perzije.

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.

⁸In v drugem letu po njih prihodu k hiši Božji v Jeruzalem, v drugem mesecu, so začeli Zerubabel, sin Sealtielov, in Jesua, sin Jozadakov, in ostali njih bratje, duhovniki in leviti, in vsi, ki so bili prišli iz ujetništva v Jeruzalem, in so postavili levite, dvajsetletne in starejše, da nadzorujejo delo hiše GOSPODOVE.

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.

⁹Tedaj so stali, kakor en mož, Jesua s sinovi in z brati svojimi, Kadmiel in sinovi njegovi, sinovi Hodavijevi, da bi nadzorovali delavce pri hiši Božji, tudi sinovi Henadadovi s svojimi sinovi in brati, leviti, vred.

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.

¹⁰In ko so stavbarji pokladali podstavo templju GOSPODOVEMU, so postavili duhovnike v njih oblačilih s trobentami in levite, sinove Asafove, s cimbali, da hvalijo GOSPODA po naredbi Davida, kralja Izraelovega.

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.

¹¹In odpevali so drugi drugim, hvaleč in zahvaljujoč GOSPODA, ker je dobrotljiv, ker vekomaj traja milost njegova nad Izraelom. In vse ljudstvo je zagnalo radostno ukanje ob hvali GOSPODOVI, ker je položil temelj hiši GOSPODOVI.

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,

¹²A mnogi iz duhovnikov in levitov in poglavarjev očetovskih družin, stari možje, ki so bili videli prejšnjo hišo, so glasno jokali, ko se je pokladal temelj tej hiši pred njih očmi; mnogi so pa glasno vriskali od veselja;tako da ljudstvo ni moglo razločiti veselega vriskanja od glasnega jokanja med ljudstvom, zakaj ljudstvo je vriskalo z močnim glasom, in glas se je daleč razlegal.

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.

¹³tako da ljudstvo ni moglo razločiti veselega vriskanja od glasnega jokanja med ljudstvom, zakaj ljudstvo je vriskalo z močnim glasom, in glas se je daleč razlegal.