< Ezra 3 >
1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in their cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
and to touch [the] month [the] seventh and son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with city and to gather [the] people like/as man one to(wards) Jerusalem
2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
and to arise: rise Jeshua son: child Jozadak and brother: compatriot his [the] priest and Zerubbabel son: child Shealtiel and brother: male-relative his and to build [obj] altar God Israel to/for to ascend: offer up upon him burnt offering like/as to write in/on/with instruction Moses man [the] God
3 In 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 YHWH, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
and to establish: establish [the] altar upon base his for in/on/with terror upon them from people [the] land: country/planet (and to ascend: offer up *Q(K)*) upon him burnt offering to/for LORD burnt offering to/for morning and to/for evening
4 They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
and to make: do [obj] feast [the] booth like/as to write and burnt offering day: daily in/on/with day: daily in/on/with number like/as justice: judgement word: portion day: daily in/on/with day: daily his
5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of YHWH that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to YHWH.
and after so burnt offering continually and to/for month: new moon and to/for all meeting: festival LORD [the] to consecrate: consecate and to/for all be willing voluntariness to/for LORD
6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to YHWH; but the foundation of YHWH's temple was not yet laid.
from day one to/for month [the] seventh to profane/begin: begin to/for to ascend: offer up burnt offering to/for LORD and temple LORD not to found
7 They 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 Koresh King of Persia.
and to give: give silver: money to/for to hew and to/for artificer and food and feast and oil to/for Sidonian and to/for Tyrian to/for to come (in): bring tree cedar from [the] Lebanon to(wards) sea Joppa like/as permission Cyrus king Persia upon them
8 Now in the second year of their coming to God's house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and 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 YHWH's house.
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9 Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God's house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
and to stand: appoint Jeshua son: child his and brother: male-sibling his Kadmiel and son: child his son: child Judah like/as one to/for to conduct upon to make: [do] [the] work in/on/with house: temple [the] God son: child Henadad son: child their and brother: male-sibling their [the] Levi
10 When the builders laid the foundation of YHWH's temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise YHWH, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
and to found [the] to build [obj] temple LORD and to stand: appoint [the] priest to clothe in/on/with trumpet and [the] Levi son: descendant/people Asaph in/on/with cymbal to/for to boast: praise [obj] LORD upon hand: power David king Israel
11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to YHWH, "For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel." All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised YHWH, because the foundation of the house of YHWH had been laid.
and to sing in/on/with to boast: praise and in/on/with to give thanks to/for LORD for pleasant for to/for forever: enduring kindness his upon Israel and all [the] people to shout (shout *LB(ah)*) great: large in/on/with to boast: praise to/for LORD upon to found house: temple LORD
12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of ancestral houses, 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,
and many from [the] priest and [the] Levi and head: leader [the] father [the] old which to see: see [obj] [the] house: temple [the] first in/on/with to found him this [the] house: temple in/on/with eye: seeing their to weep in/on/with voice great: large and many in/on/with shout in/on/with joy to/for to exalt voice
13 so 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.
and nothing [the] people to recognize voice: sound shout [the] joy to/for voice: sound weeping [the] people for [the] people to shout shout great: large and [the] voice: sound to hear: hear till to/for from distant