¹Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

¹A po teh zgodbah, ob vladanju Artakserksa, kralja v Perziji, je šel Ezra, sin Seraja, sinu Azarija, sinu Hilkija,

²the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

²sinu Saluma, sinu Zadoka, sinu Ahituba,

³the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

³sinu Amarija, sinu Azarija, sinu Merajota,

⁴the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

⁴sinu Zerahija, sinu Uzija, sinu Bukija,

⁵the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;

⁵sinu Abisua, sinu Pinehasa, sinu Eleazarja, sinu Arona, prvega duhovnika –

⁶this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yahweh his God on him.

⁶ta Ezra je šel gori iz Babilona. Ta je bil Pismouk, izurjen v zakonu Mojzesovem, ki ga je bil dal GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov. In ker je bila roka GOSPODA, Boga njegovega, nad njim, mu je dal kralj vse, kar je prosil.

⁷There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

⁷In ž njim je šlo nekaj sinov Izraelovih in duhovnikov in levitov in pevcev in vratarjev in Netinimcev gori v Jeruzalem, v sedmem letu kralja Artakserksa.

⁸He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

⁸In dospel je v Jeruzalem v petem mesecu, ko je bilo sedmo leto kraljevo.

⁹For on the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

⁹Zakaj prvi dan prvega meseca je bil določen odhod iz Babilona, prvi dan petega meseca pa je dospel v Jeruzalem, kjer je bila dobrotljiva roka Boga njegovega nad njim.

¹⁰For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

¹⁰Zakaj Ezra je pripravil srce svoje, da bo preiskoval zakon GOSPODOV in ga izpolnjeval ter da bo učil v Izraelu postave in sodbe.

¹¹Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel:

¹¹To pa je prepis lista, ki ga je dal kralj Artakserks duhovniku in pismouku Ezru, pismouku v besedah zapovedi GOSPODOVIH in njegovih postav za Izraela.

¹²Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.

¹²Artakserks, kralj kraljev, Ezru duhovniku, popolnemu pismouku zakona Boga nebes, in tako dalje.

¹³I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are minded of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.

¹³Izdajem ukaz, da naj pojdejo s teboj vsi od ljudstva Izraelovega in njih duhovnikov in levitov v državi moji, ki hočejo rade volje iti v Jeruzalem.

¹⁴Because you are sent of the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

¹⁴Ker si poslan od kralja in od njegovih sedmih svetovalcev, da napraviš preiskavo o Judi in Jeruzalemu na podlagi zakona Boga svojega, ki je v roki tvoji,

¹⁵and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

¹⁵in da odneseš tja srebro in zlato, ki so ga kralj in svetniki njegovi radovoljno darovali Bogu Izraelovemu, čigar prebivališče je v Jeruzalemu,

¹⁶and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

¹⁶in vse srebro in zlato, ki ga dobiš v vsej pokrajini Babilonski, s tem vred, kar bo ljudstvo in duhovništvo prostovoljno darovalo za hišo Boga svojega, ki je v Jeruzalemu:

¹⁷therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

¹⁷zato nakupi z vso marljivostjo s temle denarjem govedi, ovnov, jagnjet in njim pristojnih jedilnih in pitnih daril ter jih daruj na oltarju v hiši Boga vašega, ki je v Jeruzalemu.

¹⁸Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that after the will of your God.

¹⁸In kar se tebi in bratom tvojim vzvidi storiti z ostalim srebrom in zlatom, storíte po volji Boga svojega!

¹⁹The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.

¹⁹In posode, ki so ti dane za službo v hiši Boga tvojega, oddaj pošteno pred Bogom v Jeruzalemu.

²⁰Whatever more shall be needful for the house of your God, which you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure house.

²⁰In karkoli bo še potrebno za hišo Boga tvojega, kar se ti naključi izdati, daj iz kraljeve zakladnice.

²¹I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,

²¹In jaz, kralj Artakserks, ukazujem vsem zakladnikom, ki so za reko, storite z vso marljivostjo, karkoli vas bo prosil Ezra duhovnik, pismouk v zakonu Boga nebes;

²²to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred measures of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

²²dajte do sto talentov srebra in do sto meric pšenice in do sto batov vina in sto batov olja in soli brez mere.

²³Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

²³Karkoli je zapovedano po Bogu nebes, naj se natančno stori za hišo Boga nebes, kajti čemu naj pride srd božji nad državo kraljevo in njegovih sinov?

²⁴Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them.

²⁴Tudi se vam naznanja, da nimate oblasti, nakladati davke, užitnino in cestnino kateremukoli iz duhovnikov, levitov, pevcev, vratarjev, Netinimcev in služabnikov te hiše Božje.

²⁵You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

²⁵Ti pa, Ezra, po modrosti tvojega Boga, katera je v tvoji roki, postavi za sodnike in pravdnike, ki naj sodijo vse ljudstvo onostran reke, vse take, ki poznajo tvojega Boga postave. In kdor jih ne pozna, tega naučite.

²⁶Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

²⁶In kdorkoli ne bo izpolnjeval postave Boga tvojega in postave kraljeve, nad tem naj se izvrši sodba z vso strogostjo, bodisi na smrt ali v prognanstvo ali v zaplenjenje imetja ali v ječo.

²⁷Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem;

²⁷Hvaljen bodi Jehova, naših očetov Bog, ki je to dal kralju v srce, da se odiči hiša GOSPODOVA, ki je v Jeruzalemu,in ki mi je naklonil milost pred kraljem in svetovalci njegovimi in pred vsemi kraljevimi močnimi vojvodami! In tako sem se ohrabril po roki GOSPODA, Boga svojege, ki je bila nad menoj, in izbral sem prvake Izraelove, da bi šli gori z menoj.

²⁸and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

²⁸in ki mi je naklonil milost pred kraljem in svetovalci njegovimi in pred vsemi kraljevimi močnimi vojvodami! In tako sem se ohrabril po roki GOSPODA, Boga svojege, ki je bila nad menoj, in izbral sem prvake Izraelove, da bi šli gori z menoj.