¹Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

¹Nato ukaže kralj Darij, naj poiščejo v pismarnici v hiši, kjer so bili zloženi zakladi v Babilonu.

²There was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll, and therein was thus written for a record:

²In našli so v Ahmeti, na gradu, ki je v pokrajini Medijski, zavitek, in v njem je bilo takole pisano v spomin:

³In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; its height sixty cubits, and its breadth sixty cubits;

³V prvem letu kralja Cira, je izdal kralj Cir povelje: Zastran hiše Božje v Jeruzalemu: Ta hiša naj se zida kot kraj, kjer se darujejo daritve. Njene podstave naj se trdno postavijo; višava njena bodi šestdeset komolcev, širjava njena šestdeset komolcev;

⁴with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

⁴tri lege imej štirivoglatih kamenov in eno lego iz novega lesa. In stroški naj se plačajo iz kraljeve hiše.

⁵Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everyone to its place; and you shall put them in God’s house.

⁵Tudi zlate in srebrne posode hiše Božje, ki jih je vzel Nebukadnezar iz templja v Jeruzalemu ter prinesel v Babilon, naj se povrnejo in zopet prineso na svoje mesto v tempelj v Jeruzalemu, in naj jih zlože v hiši Božji. –

⁶Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.

⁶Sedaj torej, Tatenaj, deželni oblastnik za reko, Setar-bozenaj in vajini tovariši Afarsakaji, ki ste za reko, umeknite se daleč od njih!

⁷Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.

⁷Pustite jim delati pri tej hiši Božji; naj poglavar Judov in starejšine Judov grade to hišo Božjo na mestu njenem.

⁸Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they be not hindered.

⁸Vrhutega sem izdal povelje, kako naj pomagate tistim starejšinam Judov pri stavbi te hiše Božje, namreč, da se iz kraljevega imetja, iz davkov onostran reke, plačujejo stroški z vso natančnostjo tem možem, da jim ne bode ovire.

⁹That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

⁹In kar potrebujejo, telet, ovnov in jagnjet v žgalne daritve Bogu nebes, pšenice, soli, vina in olja, po zahtevi duhovnikov v Jeruzalemu, naj se jim daje dan za dnevom neprestano,

¹⁰that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

¹⁰da morejo darovati daritve v prijetno dišavo Bogu nebes in da molijo za kraljevo in za sinov njegovih življenje.

¹¹Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this:

¹¹Tudi sem izdal povelje: Vsakemu, ki premeni ta ukaz, naj vzamejo gredo iz hiše njegove in jo pokonci postavijo ter ga na njej obesijo, njegova hiša pa bodi v kup gnoja zavoljo tega.

¹²and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.

¹²A Bog, ki je storil, da bi ondi prebivalo ime njegovo, razdeni vse kralje in ljudstva, ki bodo iztegnili roko svojo, da premene ta ukaz, da se poruši ta hiša Božja v Jeruzalemu. Jaz, Darij, sem izdal povelje; naj se natančno izvrši!

¹³Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions, because Darius the king had sent a decree, did accordingly with all diligence.

¹³Tedaj so storili Tatenej, deželni oblastnik za reko, Setar-bozenaj in njiju tovariši natančno tako, za kar je bil kralj Darij sporočil.

¹⁴The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

¹⁴In starejšine Judovi so zidali in uspevalo jim je delo po prorokovanju Hagaja, proroka, in Zaharija, sinu Idovega. Tako so zidali in dokončali po zapovedi Boga Izraelovega in po povelju Cira in Darija in Artakserksa, kraljev v Perziji.

¹⁵This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

¹⁵In ta hiša je bila dokončana tretji dan meseca Adarja, ko je bilo šesto leto vladanja kralja Darija.

¹⁶The children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

¹⁶In sinovi Izraelovi, duhovniki, leviti in drugi sinovi ujetništva so praznovali posvečevanje te hiše Božje z veseljem.

¹⁷They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

¹⁷In prinesli so ob posvečevanju te hiše Božje sto juncev, dvesto ovnov, štiristo jagnjet; in v daritev za greh za vsega Izraela dvanajst kozlov, po številu rodov Izraelovih.

¹⁸They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

¹⁸In postavili so duhovnike po njih vrstah in levite po njih oddelkih v službo Bogu, ki je v Jeruzalemu, kakor je pisano v knjigi Mojzesovi.

¹⁹The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

¹⁹In sinovi ujetništva so praznovali pasho štirinajsti dan prvega meseca.

²⁰For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

²⁰Zakaj duhovniki in leviti so se očistili kakor en mož; bili so vsi čisti. In zaklali so pasho za vse sinove ujetništva in za brate svoje, duhovnike, in zase.

²¹The children of Israel who had come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,

²¹In sinovi Izraelovi, ki so se bili vrnili iz ujetništva, in vsi, ki so se ločili od nečistote poganov v deželi in k njim pristopili, da bi iskali GOSPODA, Boga Izraelovega, so jedliin so praznovali praznik opresnikov sedem dni z veseljem; zakaj GOSPOD jim je bil dal veselje in jim je naklonil srce kralja asirskega, da bi jim okrepčal roke na delu pri hiši Boga, Boga Izraelovega.

²²and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God’s house, the God of Israel.

²²in so praznovali praznik opresnikov sedem dni z veseljem; zakaj GOSPOD jim je bil dal veselje in jim je naklonil srce kralja asirskega, da bi jim okrepčal roke na delu pri hiši Boga, Boga Izraelovega.