Nehemiah 8
1 And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.
| آنگاه تمام بنی‌اسرائیل به اورشلیم آمدند و در میدان روبروی دروازه آب جمع شدند و از عِزرای کاهن خواستند تا کتاب تورات موسی را که خداوند به قوم اسرائیل عطا کرده بود، بیاورد و بخواند. |
2 And Ezra the priest put the law before the meeting of the people, before the men and women and all those who were able to take it in, on the first day of the seventh month.
| پس در روز اول ماه هفتم، عِزرا تورات موسی را آورد و بالای یک منبر چوبی رفت که مخصوص این کار ساخته شده بود تا موقع خواندن، همه بتوانند او را ببینند. سپس، در میدان روبروی دروازهٔ آب ایستاد و وقتی کتاب را باز کرد، همه به احترام آن بلند شدند. او از صبح زود تا ظهر از کتاب تورات خواند. تمام مردان و زنان و بچه‌هایی که در سنی بودند که می‌توانستند بفهمند، با دقت گوش می‌دادند. در طرف راست او مَتّیتیا، شمع، عنایا، اوریا، حلقیا، معسیا و در طرف چپ او فدایا، میشائیل، ملکیا، حاشوم، حشبدانه، زکریا و مشلام ایستاده بودند. |
3 He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.
4 And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.
5 And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet:
6 And Ezra gave praise to the Lord, the great God. And all the people in answer said, So be it, so be it; lifting up their hands; and with bent heads they gave worship to the Lord, going down on their faces to the earth.
| عِزرا گفت: «سپاس بر خداوند، خدای عظیم!» و تمام قوم دستهای خود را بلند کرده، در جواب گفتند: «آمین!» و روی بر خاک نهاده، خداوند را پرستش کردند. |
7 And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.
| سپس تمام قوم بر پا ایستادند و لاویان کتاب تورات را برای آنها خواندند و ترجمه و تفسیر کردند تا مردم آن را بفهمند. این لاویان عبارت بودند از: یشوع، بانی، شربیا، یامین، عقوب، شبتای، هودیا، معسیا، قلیطا، عزریا، یوزاباد، حنان و فلایا. |
8 And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.
9 And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.
| وقتی مردم مطالب تورات را شنیدند، گریه کردند. پس عِزرای کاهن و نحمیا که حاکم بود و لاویان که تورات را تفسیر می‌کردند به قوم گفتند: «در چنین روزی نباید گریه کنید! چون امروز روز مقدّس خداوند، خدای شماست. |
10 Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
| نباید غمگین باشید، بلکه باید جشن بگیرید و شاد باشید، بخورید و بنوشید و از خوراک خود به فقرا بدهید. این شادی خداوندی، مایه قوت شما خواهد بود!» |
11 So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.
| لاویان هم مردم را ساکت می‌کردند و می‌گفتند: «امروز روز مقدّسی است، پس گریه نکنید و محزون نباشید.» |
12 And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.
| قوم رفتند، خوردند و نوشیدند، خوراک برای فقرا فرستادند و شادی کردند، زیرا کلام خدا را که برای ایشان خوانده شده بود فهمیده بودند. |
13 And on the second day the heads of families of all the people and the priests and the Levites came together to Ezra the scribe, to give attention to the words of the law.
| روز بعد، سران طایفه‌ها با کاهنان و لاویان نزد عِزرا جمع شدند تا مطالب تورات را از او بشنوند. |
14 And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:
| وقتی تورات خوانده شد، آنها متوجه شدند که خداوند به موسی فرموده بود قوم اسرائیل در مدتی که عید خیمه‌ها را جشن می‌گیرند، باید در خیمه‌ها زندگی کنند |
15 And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.
| و تأکید شده بود که در تمام شهرهای اسرائیل و در شهر اورشلیم، اعلام شود که قوم به کوهها بروند و شاخه‌های درختان زیتون، آس، نخل و سایر درختان سایه‌دار بیاورند و خیمه درست کنند. |
16 And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.
| پس قوم رفتند و شاخه‌های درخت آوردند و روی پشت بام و در حیاط خود، در حیاط خانهٔ خدا، در میدان دروازهٔ آب و در میدان دروازهٔ افرایم، خیمه‌ها درست کردند. |
17 All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.
| تمام کسانی که از تبعید بازگشته بودند در مدت هفت روز عید، در سایبانهایی که ساخته بودند به سر بردند. آنها بی‌نهایت شاد بودند. از زمان یوشع به بعد، این مراسم رعایت نشده بود. |
18 And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.
| در آن هفت روز جشن، عِزرا هر روز از کتاب تورات می‌خواند. روز هشتم مطابق دستور موسی، جمع شده، با عبادت خدا جشن را به پایان رساندند. |
