エズラ記 6
1 是に於てダリヨス王詔言を出しバビロンにて寳物を蔵むる所の文庫に就て査べ稽しめしに
So King Darius ordered an investigation in the house of archives in Babylon.
2 メデア州の都城アクメタにて一の卷物を得たり その内に書しるせる記録は是のごとし
In the fortified city of Ecbatana in Media a scroll was found; this was its record:
3 クロス王の元年にクロス王詔言を出せり云くヱルサレムなる神の室の事につきて諭す その犠牲を獻ぐる所なる殿を建てその石礎を堅く置ゑ其室の高を六十キユビトにし其濶を六十キユビトにし
“In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus issued a decree about the house of God in Jerusalem: 'Let the house be rebuilt as a place for sacrifice, let its foundations be laid, let its height be sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits,
4 巨石三行新木一行を以せよ 其費用は王の家より授くべし
with three rows of large stones and a row of new timber, and let the cost be paid by the king's house.
5 またネブカデネザルがヱルサレムの殿より取いだしてバビロンに携へきたりし神の室の金銀の器皿は之を還してヱルサレムの殿に持ゆかしめ神の室に置てその故の所にあらしむべしと
Now bring back the gold and silver objects belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar brought to Babylon from the temple in Jerusalem and send them back to the temple in Jerusalem. You are to put them in the house of God.'
6 然ば河外ふの總督タテナイおよびセタルボズナイとその同僚なる河外ふのアパルサカイ人汝等これに遠ざかるべし
Now Tattenai, the governor of the Province Beyond the River, Shethar-Bozenai, and associates who are in the Province Beyond the River, keep away!
7 神のその室の工事を妨ぐる勿れ ユダヤ人の牧伯とユダヤ人の長老等に神のその家を故の處に建しめよ
Leave the work of this house of God alone. The governor and Jewish elders will build this house of God at that place.
8 我また詔言を出し其神の家を建ることにつきて汝らが此ユダヤ人の長老等に爲べきことを示す 王の財寳の中すなはち河外ふの租税の中より迅速に費用をその人々に與へよその工事を滯ほらしむる勿れ
I am ordering that you must do this for these Jewish elders who build this house of God: Funds from the king's tribute beyond the River will be used to pay these men so they do not have to stop their work.
9 又その需むる物即ち天の神にたてまつる燔祭の小牛牡羊および羔羊ならびに麥鹽酒油など凡てヱルサレムにをる祭司の定むる所に循ひて日々に怠慢なく彼等に與へ
Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, or lambs for the burnt offerings to the God of Heaven, grain, salt, wine, or oil according to the command of the priests in Jerusalem—give these things to them every day without fail.
10 彼らをして馨しき香の犠牲を天の神に獻ぐることを得せしめ王とその子女の生命のために祈ることを得せしめよ
Do this so they will bring the offering in to the God of Heaven and pray for me, the king, and my sons.
11 かつ我詔言を出す誰にもせよ此言を易る者あらば其家の梁を抜きとり彼を擧て之に釘ん その家はまた之がために厠にせらるべし
I am ordering that if anyone violates this decree, a beam must be pulled from his house and he must be impaled on it. His house must then be turned into a rubbish heap because of this.
12 凡そ之を易へまたヱルサレムなるその神の室を毀たんとて手を出す王あるひは民は彼處にその名を留め給ふ神ねがはくはこれを倒したまへ 我ダリヨス詔言を出せり 迅速に之を行なへ
May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree, or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, am ordering this. Let it be done with diligence!”
13 ダリヨス王かく諭しければ河外ふの總督タテナイおよびセタルボズナイとその同僚迅速に之を行なへり
Then because of the decree sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the Province Beyond the River, and Shethar-Bozenai and his associates, did everything that King Darius had ordered.
14 ユダヤ人の長老等すなはち之を建て預言者ハガイおよびイドの子ゼカリヤの預言に由て之を成就たり 彼等イスラエルの神の命に循ひクロス、ダリヨスおよびペルシヤ王アルタシヤスタの詔言に依て之を建竣ぬ
So the Jewish elders built and prospered under the teaching of Haggaithe prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They completed their buildings according to the decree of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes the king of Persia.
15 ダリヨス王の治世の六年アダルの月の三日にこの室成り
The house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of King Darius' reign.
16 是に於てイスラエルの子孫祭司レビ人およびその餘の俘擄人よろこびて神のこの室の落成禮を行なへり
The Israelite people, priests, Levites, and the rest of the captives celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.
17 即ち神のこの室の落成禮において牡牛一百牡羊二百 羔羊四百を獻げまたイスラエルの支派の數にしたがひて牡山羊十二を獻げてイスラエル全體のために罪祭となし
They offered one hundred bulls, one hundred rams, and four hundred lambs for the dedication of God's house. Twelve male goats were also offered as a sin offering for all Israel, one for each tribe in Israel.
18 祭司をその分別にしたがひて立て レビ人をその班列にしたがひて立て ヱルサレムに於て神に事へしむ 凡てモーセの書に書しるしたるが如し
They also assigned the priests and Levites to work divisions for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it was written in the Book of Moses.
19 斯て俘囚より歸り來りし人々正月の十四日に逾越節を行へり
So those who had been in exile celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
20 即ち祭司レビ人共に身を潔めて皆潔くなり一切俘囚より歸り來りし人々のため其兄弟たる祭司等のため又自己のために逾越の物を宰れり
The priests and Levites all purified themselves and slaughtered the Passover sacrifices for all those who had been in exile, including themselves.
21 擄はれゆきて歸り來しイスラエルの子孫および其國の異邦人の汚穢を棄て是等に附てイスラエルの神ヱホバを求むる者等すべて之を食ひ
The Israelite people who ate some of the Passover meat were those who had returned from exile and had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the people of the land and sought Yahweh, the God of Israel.
22 喜びて七日の間酵いれぬパンの節を行へり 是はヱホバかれらを喜ばせアッスリヤの王の心を彼らに向はせ彼をしてイスラエルの神にまします神の家の工事を助けさせたまひしが故なり
They joyfully celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days, for Yahweh had brought them joy and turned the heart of Assyria's king to strengthen their hands in the work of his house, the house of the God of Israel.
