エズラ記 3
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1第七の月になり、イスラエルの子らが町々にいたとき、民は一人の人のようにエルサレムに集まった。
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.
2そのとき、エホツァダクの子エシュアとその兄弟である祭司たち、シェアルティエルの子ゼルバベルとその同族の者たちが立ち上がり、神の人モーセの律法に記されているとおり、その上で全焼のいけにえをささげるため、イスラエルの神の祭壇を築いた。
2Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3周囲の国々の民を恐れながらも、彼らは祭壇を元の場所に据え、その上で主に朝夕の全焼のいけにえをささげた。
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 the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
4彼らは記されているとおり仮庵の祭りを祝い、規定に従い、その日に必要な数だけ、日ごとの全焼のいけにえをささげた。
4They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
5その後、常供の全焼のいけにえ、新月のささげ物、主の聖別されたすべての例祭のささげ物、また主に自発のささげ物を進んでささげるすべての者のささげ物をささげた。
5and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to the LORD.
6彼らは第七の月の第一の日から主に全焼のいけにえをささげ始めたが、主の神殿の土台はまだ据えられていなかった。
6From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD; but the foundation of the LORD’s temple was not yet laid.
7彼らは石工と大工に代金を支払った。また、ペルシア王クロスから得た許可に従い、レバノンの香柏を海路ヨッパまで運ばせるため、シドン人とツロ人に食べ物、飲み物、油を与えた。
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.
8エルサレムにある神の家に来てから二年目の第二の月に、シェアルティエルの子ゼルバベル、エホツァダクの子エシュア、そのほかの兄弟である祭司たちとレビ人たち、また捕囚からエルサレムへ帰って来たすべての者が工事を始めた。そして主の家の工事を監督させるため、二十歳以上のレビ人を任命した。
8Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, 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 the LORD’s house.
9エシュアとその子らや兄弟たち、カドミエルとその子ら、すなわちユダの子らは一つになって立ち、神の家で働く者たちを監督した。ヘナダデの子らと、その子らや兄弟であるレビ人たちも、ともに監督に当たった。
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.
10建築者たちが主の神殿の土台を据えたとき、祭司たちは祭服を着てラッパを持ち、アサフの子らであるレビ人はシンバルを持って立った。イスラエル王ダビデの定めに従って主を賛美するためであった。
10When the builders laid the foundation of the LORD’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
11彼らは主を賛美し、感謝しながら互いに歌い交わした。「主はいつくしみ深い。その慈しみはイスラエルに向かってとこしえまで続く。」主の家の土台が据えられたので、民は皆、主を賛美して大きな喜びの声を上げた。
11They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the LORD’s house had been laid.
12しかし、祭司、レビ人、父祖の家の長たちのうち、以前の神殿を見たことのある多くの老人は、この神殿の土台が目の前で据えられるのを見て声を上げて泣いた。一方、多くの者は喜びの叫びを上げた。
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,
13そのため、喜びの叫び声と民の泣き声とを聞き分けることができなかった。民が上げた大きな声は、遠くまで響いた。
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.
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