以斯拉記 3
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1到了七月， 以色列 人住在各城；那時他們如同一人，聚集在 耶路撒冷 。
1And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
2約薩達 兒子 耶書亞 和他的弟兄眾祭司，並 撒拉鐵 的兒子 所羅巴伯 與他的弟兄，都起來建築 以色列 上帝的壇，要照神人 摩西 律法書上所寫的，在壇上獻燔祭。
2And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the mall of God.
3他們在原有的根基上築壇，因懼怕鄰國的民，又在其上向耶和華早晚獻燔祭，
3And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.
4又照律法書上所寫的守住棚節，按數照例 獻 每日所當獻的燔祭；
4And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment, the duty of the day in its day.
5其後獻常獻的燔祭，並在月朔與耶和華的一切聖節獻祭，又向耶和華獻各人的甘心祭。
5And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in which a free-will offering was made to the Lord.
6從七月初一日起，他們就向耶和華獻燔祭。但耶和華殿的根基尚未立定。
6From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
7他們又將銀子給石匠、木匠，把糧食、酒、油給 西頓 人、 泰爾 人，使他們將香柏樹從 黎巴嫩 運到海裏，浮海運到 約帕 ，是照 波斯 王 塞魯士 所允准的。
7And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.
8百姓到了 耶路撒冷 上帝殿的地方。第二年二月， 撒拉鐵 的兒子 所羅巴伯 ， 約薩達 的兒子 耶書亞 和其餘的弟兄，就是祭司、 利未 人，並一切被擄歸回 耶路撒冷 的人，都興工建造；又派 利未 人，從二十歲以外的，督理建造耶和華殿的工作。
8And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.
9於是 猶大 的後裔，就是 耶書亞 和他的子孫與弟兄， 甲篾 和他的子孫， 利未 人 希拿達 的子孫與弟兄，都一同起來，督理那在上帝殿做工的人。
9Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons, and the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brethren the Levites.
10匠人立耶和華殿根基的時候，祭司皆穿禮服吹號， 亞薩 的子孫 利未 人敲鈸，照 以色列 王 大衛 所定的例，都站着讚美耶和華。
10And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David king of Israel.
11他們彼此唱和，讚美稱謝耶和華 說 ： 他本為善， 他向 以色列 人永發慈愛。 他們讚美耶和華的時候，眾民大聲呼喊，因耶和華殿的根基已經立定。
11And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.
12然而有許多祭司、 利未 人、族長，就是見過舊殿的老年人，現在親眼看見立這殿的根基，便大聲哭號，也有許多人大聲歡呼，
12But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
13甚至百姓不能分辨歡呼的聲音和哭號的聲音；因為眾人大聲呼喊，聲音聽到遠處。
13So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.
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