Nehemiah 8
1 And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one mall to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
その時民は皆ひとりのようになって水の門の前の広場に集まり、主がイスラエルに与えられたモーセの律法の書を持って来るように、学者エズラに求めた。
2 Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men and women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the seventh month.
祭司エズラは七月の一日に律法を携えて来て、男女の会衆およびすべて聞いて悟ることのできる人々の前にあらわれ、
3 And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book.
水の門の前にある広場で、あけぼのから正午まで、男女および悟ることのできる人々の前でこれを読んだ。民はみな律法の書に耳を傾けた。
4 And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made to speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania, and Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left, Phadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and Mosollam.
学者エズラはこの事のために、かねて設けた木の台の上に立ったが、彼のかたわらには右の方にマッタテヤ、シマ、アナヤ、ウリヤ、ヒルキヤおよびマアセヤが立ち、左の方にはペダヤ、ミサエル、マルキヤ、ハシュム、ハシバダナ、ゼカリヤおよびメシュラムが立った。
5 And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.
エズラはすべての民の前にその書を開いた。彼はすべての民よりも高い所にいたからである。彼が書を開くと、すべての民は起立した。
6 And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and adored God with their faces to the ground.
エズラは大いなる神、主をほめ、民は皆その手をあげて、「アァメン、アァメン」と言って答え、こうべをたれ、地にひれ伏して主を拝した。
7 Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia, Maasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made silence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their place.
エシュア、バニ、セレビヤ、ヤミン、アックブ、シャベタイ、ホデヤ、マアセヤ、ケリタ、アザリヤ、ヨザバデ、ハナン、ペラヤおよびレビびとたちは民に律法を悟らせた。民はその所に立っていた。
8 And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly to be understood: and they understood when it was read.
彼らはその書、すなわち神の律法をめいりょうに読み、その意味を解き明かしてその読むところを悟らせた。
9 And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe, and the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy day to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
総督であるネヘミヤと、祭司であり、学者であるエズラと、民を教えるレビびとたちはすべての民に向かって「この日はあなたがたの神、主の聖なる日です。嘆いたり、泣いたりしてはならない」と言った。すべての民が律法の言葉を聞いて泣いたからである。
10 And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
そして彼らに言った、「あなたがたは去って、肥えたものを食べ、甘いものを飲みなさい。その備えのないものには分けてやりなさい。この日はわれわれの主の聖なる日です。憂えてはならない。主を喜ぶことはあなたがたの力です」。
11 And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold your peace, for the day is holy, and be not sorrowful.
レビびともまたすべての民を静めて、「泣くことをやめなさい。この日は聖なる日です。憂えてはならない」と言った。
12 So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had taught them.
すべての民は去って食い飲みし、また分け与えて、大いに喜んだ。これは彼らが読み聞かされた言葉を悟ったからである。
13 And on the second day the chiefs of the families of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Esdras the scribe, that he should interpret to them the words of the law.
次の日、すべての民の氏族の長たち、祭司、レビびとらは律法の言葉を学ぶために学者エズラのもとに集まってきて、
14 And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in tabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:
律法のうちに主がモーセに命じられたこと、すなわちイスラエルの人々は七月の祭の間、仮庵の中に住むべきことがしるされているのを見いだした。
15 And that they should proclaim and publish the word in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the mount, and fetch branches of olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of thick trees, to make tabernacles, as it is written.
またすべての町々およびエルサレムにのべ伝えて、「あなたがたは山に出て行って、オリブと野生のオリブ、ミルトス、なつめやし、および茂った木の枝を取ってきて、しるされてあるとおり、仮庵を造れ」と言ってあるのを見いだした。
16 And the people went forth, and brought. And they made themselves tabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
それで民は出て行って、それを持って帰り、おのおのその家の屋根の上、その庭、神の宮の庭、水の門の広場、エフライムの門の広場などに仮庵を造った。
17 And all the assembly of them that were returned from the captivity, made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the days of Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had not done so, until that day: and there was exceeding great joy.
捕囚から帰って来た会衆は皆仮庵を造って、仮庵に住んだ。ヌンの子ヨシュアの日からこの日まで、イスラエルの人々はこのように行ったことがなかった。それでその喜びは非常に大きかった。
18 And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in the eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.
エズラは初めの日から終りの日まで、毎日神の律法の書を読んだ。人々は七日の間、祭を行い、八日目になって、おきてにしたがって聖会を開いた。
