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.
Vse ljudstvo se je zbralo skupaj kakor en mož na ulici, ki je bila pred vodnimi velikimi vrati in spregovorili so pisarju Ezru, da prinese knjigo Mojzesove postave, ki jo je Gospod zapovedal Izraelu.
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.
Duhovnik Ezra je na prvi dan sedmega meseca postavo prinesel pred skupnost tako mož kakor žena in vseh tistih, ki so lahko slišali z razumevanjem.
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.
Bral je tam pred ulico, ki je bila pred vodnimi velikimi vrati od jutra do sredine dneva, pred možmi in ženami in tistimi, ki so lahko razumeli. Ušesa vsega ljudstva so bila pozorna na knjigo postave.
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.
Pisar Ezra je stal na leseni prižnici, ki so jo naredili za ta namen. Poleg njega so na njegovi desni roki stali: Matitjá, Šemaá, Anajá, Urijá, Hilkijá in Maasejá, na njegovi levi roki pa: Pedajá, Mišaél, Malkijá, Hašúm, Hašbadána, Zeharjá in Mešulám.
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:
Ezra je odprl knjigo v pogledu vsega ljudstva (kajti on je bil nad vsem ljudstvom); in ko jo je odprl, je vse ljudstvo vstalo.
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.
Ezra je blagoslovil Gospoda, vélikega Boga. In vse ljudstvo je z dviganjem svojih rok odgovarjalo: »Amen, amen.« In sklonili so svoje glave ter oboževali Gospoda s svojimi obrazi k tlom.
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.
Tudi Ješúa, Baní, Šerebjá, Jamín, Akúb, Šabetáj, Hodijá, Maasejá, Kelitá, Azarjá, Jozabád, Hanán, Pelajá in Lévijevci so storili ljudstvu, da je razumelo postavo in ljudstvo je stalo na svojem mestu.
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.
Tako so razločno brali v knjigi Božje postave in dali pomen in jim storili, da razumejo branje.
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.
Nehemija, ki je Tirsata in pisar Ezra, duhovnik in Lévijevci, ki so učili ljudstvo, so vsemu ljudstvu rekli: »Ta dan je svet Gospodu, svojemu Bogu; ne žalujte niti ne jokajte.« Kajti vse ljudstvo je jokalo, ko so slišali besede postave.
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.
Potem jim je rekel: »Pojdite svojo pot, jejte tolščo, pijte sladko in pošljite deleže tistim, za katere ni ničesar pripravljenega, kajti ta dan je svet našemu Gospodu. Niti ne bodite žalostni, kajti Gospodova radost je vaša moč.«
11 So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.
Tako so Lévijevci umirili vse ljudstvo, rekoč: »Ohranite svoj mir, kajti dan je svet. Niti ne bodite užaloščeni.«
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.
In vse ljudstvo je odšlo svojo pot, da jedo in da pijejo in da pošljejo deleže in da naredijo veliko veselje, ker so razumeli besede, ki so jim bile naznanjene.
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.
Na drugi dan so bili zbrani skupaj vodje očetov izmed vsega ljudstva, duhovniki in Lévijevci, k pisarju Ezru, celo da razumejo besede iz postave.
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:
In našli so zapisano v postavi, ki jo je Gospod zapovedal po Mojzesu, da naj bi Izraelovi otroci na praznik sedmega meseca prebivali v šotorih
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.
in da naj bi objavili in razglasili po vseh svojih mestih in v Jeruzalemu, rekoč: »Pojdite naprej na goro in naberite oljčne mladike, borove mladike, mirtine mladike, mladike palm in mladike debelih dreves, da naredite šotore, kakor je to pisano.«
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.
Tako je ljudstvo šlo naprej in jih prineslo in si naredilo šotore, vsak na strehi svoje hiše, na svojih dvorih, na dvorih Božje hiše, na ulici Vodnih velikih vrat in na ulici Efrájimovih velikih vrat.
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.
Vsa skupnost izmed teh, ki so ponovno prišli iz ujetništva, si je naredila šotore in sedela pod šotori, kajti od dni Nunovega sina Ješúa do tega dne Izraelovi otroci niso tako storili. In tam je bilo zelo veliko veselje.
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.
Tudi dan za dnem, od prvega dne do zadnjega dne, je bral v knjigi Božje postave. Praznovanje so imeli sedem dni, na osmi dan pa je bil slovesen zbor, glede na običaj.
