Nehemiah 8
1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the scroll of the Torah of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
茲に民みな一人のごとくになりて水の門の前なる廣場に集り學士エズラに請てヱホバのイスラエルに命じたまひしモーセの律法の書を携へきたらんことを求めたり
2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
この日すなはち七月一日祭司エズラ律法を携へ來りてその集りをる男女および凡て聴て了ることを得るところの人々の前に至り
3 He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the scroll of the Torah.
水の門の前なる廣場にて曙より日中まで男女および了り得る者等の前にこれを誦めり民みな律法の書に耳を傾く
4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
學士エズラこの事のために預て設けたる木の台の上に立たりしがその傍には右の方にマツタテヤ、シマ、アナヤ、ウリヤ、ヒルキヤおよびマアセヤ立をり左の方にペダヤ、ミサエル、マルキヤ、ハシユム、ハシバダナ、ゼカリヤおよびメシユラム立をる
5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
エズラ一切の民の目の前にその書を開けり（彼一切の民より高きところに立たり）かれが開きたる時に民みな起あがれり
6 Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
エズラすなはち大神ヱホバを祝しければ民みなその手を挙て應へてアーメン、アーメンと言ひ首を下げ地に俯伏てヱホバを拝めり
7 Also Yeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.
ヱシユア、バニ、セレビヤ、ヤミン、アツクブ、シヤベタイ、ホデヤ、マアセヤ、ケリタ、アザリヤ、ヨザバテ、ハナン、ペラヤおよびレビ人等民に律法を了らしめたり民はその所に立をる
8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
彼等その書に就て神の律法を朗かに誦み且その意を解あかしてその誦ところを之に了らしむ
9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “Today is holy to the LORD your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
時にテルシヤタたるネヘミヤ祭司たる學士エズラおよび民を教ふるレビ人等一切の民にむかひて此日は汝らの神ヱホバの聖日なり哭くなかれ泣なかれと言り其は民みな律法の言を聴て泣たればなり
10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
而して彼らに言けるは汝ら去て肥たる者を食ひ甘き者を飮め而してその備をなし得ざる者に之を分ちおくれ此日は我らの主の聖日なり汝ら憂ふることをせざれヱホバを喜ぶ事は汝らの力なるぞかしと
11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”
レビ人も亦一切の民を静めて言ふ汝ら黙せよ此日は聖きぞかし憂ふる勿れと
12 All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
一切の民すなはち去りて食ひかつ飮み又人に分ちおくりて大なる喜悦をなせり是はその誦きかされし言を了りしが故なり
13 On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.
その翌日一切の民の族長等祭司およびレビ人等律法の語を學ばんとて學士エズラの許に集り來り
14 They found written in the Torah how the LORD had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
律法を視るにヱホバのモーセによりて命じたまひし所を録して云く七月の節會にはイスラエルの子孫茅廬に居るべしと
15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters, as it is written.”
又云く一切の邑々及びヱルサレムに布傅へて言べし汝ら山に出ゆき橄欖の枝油木の枝烏拈の枝棕櫚の枝および茂れる木の枝を取きたりて録されたるごとくに茅廬を造れと
16 So the people went out and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.
是において民出ゆきて之を取きたり各々その家の屋背の上あるひはその庭あるひは神の室の庭あるひは水の門の廣場あるひはエフライムの門の廣場に茅廬を造れり
17 All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters and lived in the temporary shelters, for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.
擄はれゆきて歸り來りし會衆みな斯茅廬を造りて茅廬に居りヌンの子ヨシユアの日より彼日までにイスラエルの子孫斯おこなひし事なし是をもてその喜悦はなはだ大なりき
18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the scroll of the Torah of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
初の日より終の日までエズラ日々に神の律法の書を誦り人衆七日の間節筵をおこなひ第八日にいたり例にしたがひて聖會を開けり
