Ezra 3
1 After the Israeli people [returned to Israel, and] had begun to live in their towns, (in the autumn of/after the hot season ended in) that year, they all gathered together in Jerusalem.
ORA, quando fu giunto il settimo mese, i figliuoli d'Israele [abitando] nelle [lor] città, il popolo si adunò di pari consentimento in Gerusalemme.
2 Then Jeshua, the son of Jehozadak, and his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his friends, all began to rebuild the altar of God, the one whom the Israeli people [worshiped]. They did that in order that they could sacrifice burned offerings on it, according to what the prophet Moses had written in the laws [that God gave to him].
Allora, Iesua, figliuolo di Iosadac, si levò su, co' sacerdoti, suoi fratelli; e Zorobabel, figliuolo di Sealtiel, co' suoi fratelli; e riedificarono l'Altare dell'Iddio d'Israele, per offerire sopra esso gli olocausti, come è scritto nella Legge di Mosè, uomo di Dio.
3 Even though they were afraid of the people who were already living in that area, they rebuilt the altar at the same place [where the previous altar had been]. Before they started to lay the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, [the priests] started to burn sacrifices to Yahweh [on the altar]. They offered sacrifices every morning and every evening. Fifteen days after [they started to offer these sacrifices], the people celebrated the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters, as [Moses] had commanded them to do in the laws [that God gave to him]. Each day the priests offered the sacrifices [that were required] for that day. In addition, they presented the regular burned offerings and the offerings [that were required] for the New Moon Festivals and the other festivals that they celebrated each year to [honor] Yahweh. They also brought other offerings only because they desired to bring them, [not because they were required to bring them].
E rizzarono l'Altare sopra la sua pianta; perchè aveano spavento de' popoli de' paesi [vicini]; ed offersero sopra esso olocausti al Signore: gli olocausti della mattina e della sera.
Celebrarono eziandio la festa de' tabernacoli, come è scritto; ed [offersero] olocausti per ciascun giorno in [certo] numero, secondo che è ordinato giorno per giorno.
E dopo questo [offersero] l'olocausto continuo, e quelli delle calendi, e di tutte le feste solenni del Signore, le quali sono santificate; e quelli di tutti coloro che offerivano alcuna offerta volontaria al Signore.
Dal primo giorno del settimo mese cominciarono ad offerire olocausti al Signore. Or il Tempio del Signore non era [ancora] fondato.
7 Then the Israelis hired masons and carpenters, and they bought [logs from] cedar trees from the people of Tyre and Sidon [cities], and they gave those people food and wine and olive oil for the logs. They brought the logs down from [the mountains in] Lebanon [to the Mediterranean seacoast and then floated them along the coast of the Sea, ] to Joppa. King Cyrus permitted them to do that. [Then the logs were brought from Joppa inland up to Jerusalem].
Ed essi diedero danari agli scarpellini, ed a' legnaiuoli; diedero eziandio vittuaglia, e bevanda, ed olio, a' Sidonii, e a' Tirii, per portar legname di cedro dal Libano al mar di Iafo, secondo la concessione che Ciro, re di Persia, avea loro fatta.
8 The Israelis started to rebuild the temple in the (spring/time before the hot season) of the second year after they returned to Jerusalem. Zerubbabel and Jeshua and all the people who had returned to Jerusalem worked on the building. All the (Levites/men who did work in the temple) supervised this work.
E nell'anno secondo, da che furono giunti alla Casa di Dio in Gerusalemme, nel secondo mese, Zorobabel, figliuolo di Sealtiel, e Iesua, figliuolo di Iosadac, e il rimanente de' lor fratelli, sacerdoti, e Leviti, e tutti quelli ch'erano venuti dalla cattività in Gerusalemme, cominciarono [a rifare il Tempio]; e costituirono de' Leviti dall'età di vent'anni in su, per sollecitare il lavoro della Casa del Signore.
9 Jeshua and his sons and his other relatives, and Kadmiel and his sons, who were descendants of Hodaviah, also helped to supervise the work. The family of Henadad, who were also all Levites, joined with them in supervising this work.
Iesua eziandio, ed i suoi figliuoli e fratelli, [e] Cadmiel, co' suoi figliuoli, figliuoli di Giuda, di pari consentimento erano presenti, per sollecitar quelli che lavoravano all'opera della Casa di Dio; come ancora i figliuoli di Henadad, ed i lor figliuoli, e fratelli.
10 When the builders finished laying the foundation of the temple, the priests put on their robes and stood in their places, blowing their trumpets. Then the Levites, who were descendants of Asaph, clashed/banged their cymbals to praise Yahweh, just as King David had [many years previously] told [Asaph and the other musicians] to do.
Ora, come gli edificatori fondavano il Tempio del Signore, si fecero star [quivi] presenti i sacerdoti, vestiti [delle lor vesti], con trombe; ed i Leviti, figliuoli di Asaf, con cembali per lodare il Signore, secondo l'ordine di Davide, re d'Israele.
11 They praised Yahweh and thanked him, and they sang this song about him: “He is very good [to us]! He faithfully loves us Israeli people, and he will love us forever.” Then all the people shouted loudly, praising Yahweh because they had finished laying the foundation of Yahweh’s temple.
E cantavano a vicenda, lodando, e celebrando il Signore, [dicendo: ] Ch'egli [è] buono, che la sua benignità [è] in eterno sopra Israele. E tutto il popolo gittava gran grida, lodando il Signore, perchè la Casa del Signore si fondava.
12 Many of the [old] priests, Levites, and leaders of families remembered [what] the first temple [was like], and they cried aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid [because they knew that the new temple would not be as beautiful as the first temple]. But the other people shouted joyfully.
Ma molti de' sacerdoti, e dei Leviti, e de' capi delle [famiglie] paterne, [ch'erano] vecchi, e aveano veduta la primiera Casa in piè, avendo questa Casa davanti agli occhi, piangevano con gran grida, mentre molti [altri] alzavano la voce con grida d'allegrezza.
13 The shouting and the crying was very loud; [even people] far away could hear it.
E il popolo non poteva discernere la voce delle grida di allegrezza dalla voce del pianto nel popolo; perciocchè il popolo gittava gran grida, e la voce ne fu udita fin da lungi.
