¹Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

¹Ti pa so poglavarji očetovin in to je rodopis tistih, ki so šli z menoj gori iz Babilona ob vladanju kralja Artakserksa.

²Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush.

²Od sinov Pinehasovih: Gersom; od sinov Itamarjevih: Daniel; od sinov Davidovih: Hatuš.

³Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.

³Od sinov Sekanijevih, od sinov Paroševih: Zeharija, in ž njim je bilo štetih po rodopisu stoinpetdeset moških.

⁴Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.

⁴Od sinov Pahat-moaba: Eljoenaj, sin Zerahijev, in ž njim dvesto moških.

⁵Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

⁵Od sinov Sekanijevih: sin Jahazielov in ž njim tristo moških.

⁶Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.

⁶Od sinov Adinovih: Ebed, sin Jonatanov, in ž njim petdeset moških.

⁷Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.

⁷Od sinov Elamovih pa: Jesaja, sin Atalijev, in ž njim sedemdeset moških.

⁸Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.

⁸Od sinov Sefatijevih: Zebadija, sin Mihaelov, in ž njim osemdeset moških.

⁹Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

⁹Od sinov Joabovih: Obadija, sin Jehielov, in ž njim dvesto in osemnajst moških.

¹⁰Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males.

¹⁰Od sinov Selomitovih: sin Josifijev in ž njim sto in šestdeset moških.

¹¹Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.

¹¹Od sinov Bebajevih: Zeharija, sin Bebajev, in ž njim osemindvajset moških.

¹²Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.

¹²Od sinov Azgadovih: Johanan, sin Hakatanov, in ž njim sto in deset moških.

¹³Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

¹³Od sinov Adonikamovih, ki so bili zadnji, in njih imena so: Elifelet, Jegiel in Semaja in ž njimi šestdeset moških.

¹⁴Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

¹⁴In od sinov Bigvajevih: Utaj in Zabud in ž njimi sedemdeset moških.

¹⁵I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

¹⁵In zbral sem jih ob reki, ki teče v Ahavo, in tam smo taborili tri dni. In ko sem razgledoval ljudstvo in duhovnike, nisem ondi našel nikogar iz sinov Levijevih.

¹⁶Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, who were teachers.

¹⁶Tedaj pošljem po Eliezerja, Ariela, Semaja, Elnatana, Jariba, Elnatana, Natana, Zeharija in Mesulama, prvake, tudi po Jojariba in Elnatana, zvedenca.

¹⁷I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

¹⁷Tem dam sporočilo za Ida, prvaka v kraju Kasifiji, in jim velim, kaj jim je govoriti z Idom in z brati njegovimi, Netinimci, v kraju Kasifiji, da bi nam privedli strežaje za hišo našega Boga.

¹⁸According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

¹⁸In privedli so nam, ker je bila dobrotljiva roka Boga našega nad nami, razsodnega moža iz sinov Mahlija, sinu Levija, sinu Izraelovega, in Serebija ž njegovimi sinovi in brati, osemnajst,

¹⁹and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

¹⁹in Hasabija in ž njim Jesaja iz sinov Merarijevih, brate njegove in njih sinove, dvajset,

²⁰and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.

²⁰od Netinimcev pa, ki jih je bil določil David in poglavarji, da bi stregli levitom, dvesto in dvajset Netinimcev; vsi iz njih so bili imenovani z imenom.

²¹Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

²¹Nato sem oklical post ondi, pri reki Ahavi, da bi se ponižali pred Bogom svojim, da izprosimo od njega ravno pot za sebe in za otročiče svoje in za vse blago svoje.

²²For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

²²Sramoval sem se namreč prositi kralja čete vojakov in konjikov, da bi nam pomagali zoper sovražnike na poti; kajti dejali smo bili kralju: Roka Boga našega je nad vsemi, ki ga iščejo, v dobro, a moč in jeza njegova je zoper vse, ki ga zapuščajo.

²³So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

²³Postili smo se torej in Boga svojega prosili tega, in dal se nam je izprositi.

²⁴Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

²⁴Nato sem odločil dvanajstero poglavarjev duhovnikov, Serebija in Hasabija in deset njiju bratov ž njima;

²⁵and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:

²⁵in odtehtal sem jim srebro in zlato in posode, dar povzdignjenja za hišo Boga našega, ki so ga bili darovali kralj in svetovalci in vojvode njegovi in vsi Izraelci, kar jih je bilo ondi.

²⁶I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;

²⁶Odtehtal sem, pravim, njim v roko šesto in petdeset talentov srebra in srebrnih posod za sto talentov, zlata pa sto talentov,

²⁷and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

²⁷in dvajset zlatih čaš, vrednih tisoč darikov, in dve zlatožarni bronasti posodi, dragi ko zlato.

²⁸I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.

²⁸In sem jim velel: Vi ste sveti GOSPODU, in te posode so svete, in srebro in zlato je dobrovoljen dar GOSPODU, vaših očetu Bogu.

²⁹Watch, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of Yahweh.”

²⁹Bodite bedljivi in jih čuvajte, dokler jih ne stehtate pred poglavarji duhovnikov in levitov in poglavarji očetovin Izraelovih v Jeruzalemu, v hramih hiše GOSPODOVE!

³⁰So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

³⁰Vzeli so torej duhovniki in leviti stehtano srebro in zlato in posode, da jih doneso v Jeruzalem, v hišo Boga našega.

³¹Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

³¹Potem smo odrinili od reke Ahave, dvanajsti dan prvega meseca, da potujemo v Jeruzalem; in roka Boga našega je bila nad nami, in otel nas je iz roke sovražnikov in opotnih zasednikov.

³²We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.

³²In dospeli smo v Jeruzalem in ondi ostali tri dni.

³³On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;

³³In četrti dan so srebro in zlato in posode stehtali v hiši Boga našega v roke Meremotu, sinu Urija duhovnika, in ž njim je bil Eleazar, sin Pinehasov, ž njima pa Jozabad, sin Jesuov, in Noadija, sin Binuja, levita;

³⁴the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was written at that time.

³⁴vse po številu in po teži, in vsa teža je bila tisti čas zapisana.

³⁵The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.

³⁵Sinovi ujetništva, ki so se bili vrnili iz prognanstva, so darovali žgalne daritve Bogu Izraelovemu: dvanajst juncev za vsega Izraela, šestindevetdeset ovnov, sedeminsedemdeset jagnjet, dvanajst kozlov v daritev za greh, vse to v žgalščino GOSPODU.In izročili so kraljeve ukaze kraljevim namestnikom in deželskim oblastnikom tostran reke. Ti pa so podpirali ljudstvo in hišo Božjo.

³⁶They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and God’s house.

³⁶In izročili so kraljeve ukaze kraljevim namestnikom in deželskim oblastnikom tostran reke. Ti pa so podpirali ljudstvo in hišo Božjo.