ネヘミヤ 記 8
1 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
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that [was] before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
2 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
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
3 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
And he read therein before the street that [was] before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people [were attentive] unto the book of the law.
4 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
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam.
5 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
And 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:
6 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
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with [their] faces to the ground.
7 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
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood] in their place.
8 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
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading.
9 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
And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day [is] holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
10 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
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for [this] day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
11 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
So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day [is] holy; neither be ye grieved.
12 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
And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
13 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
And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
14 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
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
15 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
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as [it is] written.
16 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
So the people went forth, and brought [them], and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
17 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
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
18 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
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day [was] a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
