Ezra 3
1 Le ɣleti adrelia me esi Israelviwo nɔ woƒe duwo me nyuie vɔ la, dukɔ la ƒo ƒu ɖe Yerusalem abe ame ɖekawo ene.
And now the seventh month had arrived, and the sons of Israel were in their cities. Then, the people were gathered together, like one man, in Jerusalem.
2 Tete Yozadak ƒe vi, Yesua, nɔvia nunɔlawo kple Sealtiel ƒe vi, Zerubabel kple woƒe kpeɖeŋutɔ bubuwo dze Israel ƒe Mawu la ƒe vɔsamlekpui la ɖiɖi gɔme be woasa numevɔwo le edzi, le nu si woŋlɔ ɖe Mawu ƒe ame, Mose ƒe Se la me nu.
And Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, rose up with his brothers, the priests. And Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, rose up with his brothers. And they built the altar of the God of Israel, so that they might offer holocausts upon it, just as it was written in the law of Moses, the man of God.
3 Togbɔ be wovɔ̃ na ame siwo ƒo xlã wo hã la, woɖi vɔsamlekpui la ɖe eƒe gɔmeɖokpewo dzi, eye wosa ŋdi kple fiẽ numevɔsawo le edzi na Yehowa.
Now they set the altar of God upon its bases, while keeping the people of all the surrounding lands away from it. And they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord, morning and evening.
4 Le nu si woŋlɔ ɖi nu la, woɖu agbadɔmeŋkekenyui, eye wosa numevɔ xexlẽme sinu woɖo na ŋkeke ɖe sia ɖe.
And they kept the solemnity of tabernacles, just as it was written, and the holocaust of each day in order, according to the precept, the work of each day in its time.
5 Le esia megbe la, wosa gbe sia gbe numevɔsawo, Dzinu Yeye vɔsawo kple vɔsa siwo woɖo ɖi na Yehowa ƒe ŋkeke kɔkɔe bubuwo. Nenema ke wosa vɔ siwo nye lɔlɔ̃nununana na Yehowa.
And after these, they offered the continual holocaust, as much on the new moons as on all the solemnities of the Lord that were consecrated, and on all those when a voluntary gift was offered to the Lord.
6 Togbɔ be womeɖo Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ la gɔme anyi haɖe o hã la, wodze vɔsasa na Yehowa gɔme le ɣleti adrelia ƒe ŋkeke gbãtɔ dzi.
From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer holocausts to the Lord. But the temple of God had not yet been founded.
7 Azɔ la, wotsɔ ga na gliɖolawo kple atikpalawo, eye wotsɔ nuɖuɖu, nunono kple ami na Sidontɔwo kple Tirotɔwo, be woatsɔ sedati lalãwo tso Lebanon ato ƒu dzi ava kɔ ɖe Yopa, le Persia fia, Sirus ƒe mɔnana nu.
And so they gave money to those who cut and laid stones. Similarly, they gave food, and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, so that they would bring cedar wood, from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, in accord with what had been commanded of them by Cyrus, the king of the Persians.
8 Le ɣleti evelia me, le ƒe evelia me esi wova ɖo Mawu ƒe aƒe la me le Yerusalem la, Sealtiel ƒe vi, Zerubabel, Yozadak ƒe vi, Yesua kple wo nɔvi bubuawo, nunɔlawo kple Levitɔwo kple ame siwo trɔ tso aboyome va Yerusalem la, dze dɔ la gɔme. Wotia Levitɔ siwo xɔ ƒe blaeve alo wu nenema la be woakpɔ Yehowa ƒe aƒe la ƒe dɔ dzi.
Then, in the second year of their advent to the temple of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the remainder of their brothers, the priests, and the Levites, and all who had arrived from the captivity to Jerusalem, began, and they appointed Levites, from twenty years and over, to hasten the work of the Lord.
9 Yesua kple via ŋutsuwo, nɔviawo kple Kadmiel kple via ŋutsuwo, ame siwo nye Hodavia ƒe dzidzimeviwo, kpe ɖe Henadad ƒe viŋutsuwo kple wo viŋutsuwo kpakple wo nɔviwo ŋu. Levitɔwo katã wɔ ɖeka le ame siwo le Mawu ƒe aƒe la tum la ƒe dɔwo dzi kpɔkpɔ me.
And Jeshua and his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, and the sons of Judah, like one man, stood so that they might have charge over those who did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brothers, the Levites.
10 Esi xɔtulawo ɖo Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ la ƒe gɔmeɖokpe vɔ la, nunɔlawo nɔ woƒe awu ʋlayawo me, lé kpẽwo ɖe asi kple Levitɔ siwo tso Asaf ƒe ƒome me, lé asiʋuiwo ɖe asi, eye woyi ɖanɔ woƒe nɔƒewo be woakafu Yehowa, abe ale si Israel fia, David ɖoe da ɖi ene.
And when the builders had founded the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their adornment with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, stood with cymbals, so that they might praise God by the hand of David, the king of Israel.
11 Wotsɔ kafukafu kple akpedada dzi ha na Yehowa be, “Eƒe dɔ me nyo, eye eƒe lɔlɔ̃ na Israel li ɖaa.” Tete amehawo katã do kafukafuɣli na Yehowa sesĩe elabena woɖo Yehowa ƒe aƒe la ƒe gɔmeɖokpeawo vɔ.
And they sung together with hymns and confession to the Lord: “For he is good. For his mercy is over Israel unto eternity.” And likewise, all the people shouted with a great clamor in praise to the Lord, because the temple of the Lord had been founded.
12 Ke esi nunɔla tsitsi geɖewo, Levitɔwo kple ƒometatɔwo, ame siwo kpɔ gbedoxɔ xoxo la kpɔ, eye wogakpɔ yeyea ƒe gɔmeɖoƒe la, wo katã fa avi kple ɣli, ke ame bubu geɖewo ya do dzidzɔɣli.
And many of the priests and the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers and of the elders, who had seen the former temple, when now this temple was founded and was before their eyes, wept with a great voice. And many of them, shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
13 Ame aɖeke mate ŋu ade vovototo dzidzɔɣli la kple aviɣli la dome o, elabena ameawo ƒe aseyetsotso de dzi ŋutɔ. Ale wose woƒe ɣli la le didiƒe ke.
Neither could anyone distinguish between the voice of clamor of joy, and a voice of weeping of the people. For the shouting of the people mixed into a great clamor, and the voice was heard from far away.
