エズラ記 6
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)Translation
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1そこでダレイオス王は命令を下し、バビロンの文書庫、すなわち宝物を納めていた所を調べさせた。
1Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of the books that were laid up in Babylon,
2するとメディア州のアクメタにある宮殿で一つの巻物が見つかり、そこには記録として次のように書かれていた。
2And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province of Media, a book in which this record was written.
3クロス王の第一年、クロス王はエルサレムにある神の家について命令を下した。「いけにえをささげる場所であるその家を建て、その土台を堅固に据えよ。高さは六十キュビト、幅も六十キュビトとせよ。
3In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that the house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place where they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that may support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of threescore cubits,
4大石を三段、新しい木材を一段にして築け。費用は王家から支払え。
4Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the charges shall be given out of the king’s house.
5また、ネブカドネザルがエルサレムの神殿から持ち出してバビロンへ運んだ神の家の金銀の器も返し、エルサレムの神殿の元の場所へ戻せ。それらを神の家に納めよ。
5And also let the golden and silver vessels of the temple of God, which Nabuchodonosor took out of the temple of Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and carried back to the temple of Jerusalem to their place, which also were placed in the temple of God.
6それゆえ今、川の向こう側の総督タテナイ、シェタル・ボゼナイ、また川の向こう側にいる同僚のアファルサク人たちよ、そこに近づくな。
6Now therefore Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river, Stharbuzanai, and your counsellors the Apharsachites, who are beyond the river, depart far from them,
7この神の家の工事を妨げてはならない。ユダヤ人の総督とユダヤ人の長老たちに、この神の家を元の場所に建てさせよ。
7And let that temple of God be built by the governor of the Jews, and by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in its place.
8さらに私は、この神の家を建てるため、あなたがたがユダヤ人の長老たちに何をすべきかを命じる。工事が妨げられないよう、王の国庫、すなわち川の向こう側から納められる貢ぎ物から、費用を滞りなく彼らに支払え。
8I also have commanded what must be done by those ancients of the Jews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the king’s chest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond the river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work be hindered.
9彼らが必要とするもの、すなわち天の神への全焼のいけにえのための若い雄牛、雄羊、子羊、またエルサレムにいる祭司たちの求めに応じて、小麦、塩、ぶどう酒、油を日ごとに欠かさず与えよ。
9And if it shall be necessary, let calves also, and lambs, and kids, for holocausts to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem, be given them day by day, that there be no complaint in any thing.
10それは、彼らが天の神に芳しい香りのいけにえをささげ、王とその子らの命のために祈るためである。
10And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his children.
11私はまた命じる。この命令を変更する者があれば、その家から梁を一本引き抜き、その者を引き上げてその梁に固定せよ。このことのゆえに、その家を汚物の山とせよ。
11And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house. and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.
12ご自分の名をそこに住まわせた神が、この命令を変え、エルサレムにある神の家を破壊しようと手を伸ばすすべての王と民を打ち倒されるように。私ダレイオスが命令した。滞りなく実行せよ。」
12And may the God, that hath caused his name to dwell there, destroy all kingdoms, and the people that shall put out their hand to resist, and to destroy the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. I Darius have made the decree, which I will have diligently complied with.
13そこで川の向こう側の総督タテナイ、シェタル・ボゼナイ、その同僚たちは、ダレイオス王の命令どおり、滞りなく実行した。
13So then Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors diligently executed what Darius the king had commanded.
14ユダヤ人の長老たちは建築を進め、預言者ハガイとイドの子ゼカリヤの預言によって工事は順調に進んだ。彼らはイスラエルの神の命令と、ペルシア王クロス、ダレイオス、アルタクセルクセスの命令に従って建て、完成させた。
14And the ancients of the Jews built and prospered according to the prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo: and they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel, and by the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of the Persians.
15この家はダレイオス王の治世の第六年、アダルの月の三日に完成した。
15And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.
16イスラエルの人々、祭司たち、レビ人たち、捕囚から帰った残りの者たちは、喜びをもってこの神の家の奉献式を祝った。
16And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of the house of God with joy.
17彼らはこの神の家の奉献式に、雄牛百頭、雄羊二百頭、子羊四百匹をささげた。また全イスラエルのための罪のきよめのささげ物として、イスラエルの部族の数に従い、雄ヤギ十二頭をささげた。
17And they offered at the dedication of the house of God, a, hundred calves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin offering for all Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18そしてモーセの書に記されているとおり、エルサレムで神に仕えるため、祭司たちをその組ごとに、レビ人たちをその順序ごとに配置した。
18And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
19捕囚から帰った者たちは、第一の月の十四日に過越の祭りを祝った。
19And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the first month.
20祭司たちとレビ人たちは一同そろって身をきよめ、皆きよくなっていた。彼らは捕囚から帰ったすべての者、その兄弟である祭司たち、そして自分たちのために過越のいけにえをほふった。
20For all the priests and the Levites were purified as one man: all were clear to kill the phase for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and themselves.
21捕囚から帰ったイスラエルの人々と、イスラエルの神、主を求めるために、その地の異邦の民の汚れから離れて彼らに加わったすべての者が、それを食べた。
21And the children of Israel that were returned from captivity, and all that had separated themselves from the filthiness of the nations of the earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat.
22彼らは七日間、喜びをもって種なしパンの祭りを祝った。主が彼らを喜ばせ、アッシリア王の心を彼らに向け、イスラエルの神の家の工事に携わる彼らを力づけてくださったからである。
22And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the house of the Lord the God of Israel.
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