عِزرا 7
| در زمان سلطنت اردشیر، پادشاه پارس، مردی زندگی می‌کرد به نام عِزرا. عِزرا پسر سرایا بود، سرایا پسر عزریا، عزریا پسر حلقیا، | 1 |
[Many/Fifty years] later, while Artaxerxes was the king of Persia, I, Ezra came from Babylon here to Jerusalem. I am the son of Seraiah and the grandson of Azariah, and the great-grandson of Hilkiah.
| حلقیا پسر شلوم، شلوم پسر صادوق، صادوق پسر اخیطوب، | 2 |
Hilkiah was the son of Shallum, who was the son of Zadok, who was the son of Ahitub,
| اخیطوب پسر امریا، امریا پسر عزریا، عزریا پسر مرایوت، | 3 |
who was the son of Amariah, who was the son of Azariah, who was the son of Meraioth,
| مرایوت پسر زرحیا، زرحیا پسر عزی، عزی پسر بقی، | 4 |
who was the son of Zerahiah, who was the son of Uzzi, who was the son of Bukki,
| بقی پسر ابیشوع، ابیشوع پسر فینحاس، فینحاس پسر العازار و العازار پسر هارون کاهن اعظم. | 5 |
who was the son of Abishua, who was the son of Phinehas, who was the son of Eleazar, who was the son of Aaron, the [first] Supreme Priest.
| عِزرا از علمای دین یهود بود و کتاب تورات را که خداوند به‌وسیلۀ موسی به قوم اسرائیل داده بود، خوب می‌دانست. اردشیر پادشاه هر چه عِزرا می‌خواست به وی می‌داد، زیرا خداوند، خدایش با او بود. عِزرا بابِل را ترک گفت | 6 |
I am a man who knows very well the laws that Moses [wrote]. Those were the laws that Yahweh, the God whom we Israeli people ([worship/belong to]), had given to us Israeli people. When I arrived in Jerusalem, Yahweh my God was kind to me, and as a result the [people] gave me everything that I had requested the king to [tell them to] give to me.
| و همراه عده‌ای از یهودیان و نیز کاهنان، لاویان، نوازندگان، نگهبانان و خدمتگزاران خانهٔ خدا به اورشلیم رفت. ایشان روز اول ماه اول از سال هفتم سلطنت اردشیر از بابِل حرکت کردند و به یاری خدا روز اول ماه پنجم همان سال، به سلامت به اورشلیم رسیدند. | 7 |
Some of the priests, some [other] descendants of Levi, [some] singers, [some] (gatekeepers/men who guarded the gates of the temple), and [some] men who worked in the temple, and some other [Israeli] people came up with me here to Jerusalem. That was during the seventh year that Artaxerxes was the king [of Persia].
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We left Babylon on April 8, which was the first day of the Jewish year. Because God was very kind to us, we arrived [safely] in Jerusalem on August 4 of that year.
| عِزرا زندگی خود را وقف مطالعهٔ تورات و به کار بستن دستورهای آن و تعلیم احکامش به مردم اسرائیل نموده بود. | 10 |
During my entire life, I devoted myself to studying the laws of Yahweh, and how to obey those laws. I had also taught those laws and all their regulations to the Israeli people [for many years].
| این است متن نامه‌ای که اردشیر پادشاه به عِزرای کاهن و کاتب داد. (عِزرا در امور مربوط به فرمانهای خداوند و فرایض او به اسرائیل شخص صاحب‌نظری بود): | 11 |
King Artaxerxes [knew that] I am a priest who knows the Jewish laws very well. [He knew that for many years] I had studied those laws and had taught all the rules and regulations of those laws to the Israeli people. [So before I left Babylon to come to Jerusalem, ] he wrote a letter, and gave a copy to me. [This is what he wrote]:
| از اردشیر پادشاه، به عِزرای کاهن و عالم شریعت خدای آسمان. | 12 |
[“This letter is] from me, Artaxerxes, the greatest of the kings. [I am giving it] to Ezra the priest, who has studied very well all the rules and regulations that the God [who is/rules] in heaven [gave to the Israeli people].
| به این وسیله فرمان می‌دهم که از تمام مردم اسرائیل و کاهنان و لاویانی که در سراسر قلمرو سرزمین من به سر می‌برند، هر که بخواهد می‌تواند همراه تو به اورشلیم بازگردد. | 13 |
“Ezra, I command that when you return to Jerusalem, any of the Israeli people in my kingdom who want to are allowed to go with you. That includes any priests and [other] descendants of Levi [who will work in the temple] who want to go.
| تو از طرف من و هفت مشاورم به اورشلیم و یهودا فرستاده می‌شوی تا بر اساس قوانین خدایت وضع مردم آنجا را تحقیق کنی. | 14 |
I, along with my seven counselors/advisors, am sending you to Jerusalem, in order that you can determine what is happening there and in [other towns in] Judah. You are taking with you [MTY] a copy of God’s laws; make sure that the people are doing everything that is written in those laws.
| در ضمن طلا و نقره‌ای را که ما به خدای اسرائیل تقدیم می‌کنیم و طلا و نقره‌ای را که اهالی بابِل می‌دهند، همراه با هدایایی که یهودیان و کاهنان برای خانهٔ خدا تقدیم می‌کنند، با خود به اورشلیم ببر. | 15 |
[We are also saying that] you should take with you the silver and gold that I and my advisors are wanting to give to you, in order that you will present it to be an offering to the God who [rules] the Israeli people and who lives in Jerusalem.
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You should also take any silver and gold that the people in the entire Babylonia province give to you, and the money that the priests and [other] Israeli people have happily said that they would give to you to be offerings for building the temple of their God in Jerusalem.
| وقتی به آنجا رسیدی قبل از هر چیز با این هدایا، گاوها، قوچها، بره‌ها، و موادی را که برای هدایای آردی و نوشیدنی لازم است خریداری کن و تمام آنها را روی مذبح خانهٔ خدای خود تقدیم نما. | 17 |
With this money, you should buy the bulls, rams, lambs, and the grain and wine that the priests will burn on the altar [outside] the temple of your God in Jerusalem.
| بقیهٔ هدایا را به هر طریقی که تو و برادرانت صلاح می‌دانید و مطابق خواست خدای شماست به کار ببرید. | 18 |
“If there is any silver or gold that remains [you have bought all those things], you and your companions/colleagues are permitted to use it to [buy] whatever you desire, but buy only things that [you know that] God wants you to buy.
| لوازمی را که ما برای خانهٔ خدای شما در اورشلیم می‌دهیم به خدای خود تقدیم کنید. | 19 |
We have given to you some valuable items to be used in the temple of your God. Take them also to Jerusalem.
| اگر چیز دیگری برای خانهٔ خدا احتیاج داشتید می‌توانید از خزانهٔ سلطنتی دریافت نمایید. | 20 |
If you need any other things for the temple, you are permitted to get the money for those things from the building here where my government’s money is kept/stored.
| من، اردشیر پادشاه، به تمام خزانه‌دارها در مناطق غرب رود فرات دستور می‌دهم که هر چه عِزرا، کاهن و عالم شریعت خدای آسمان، از شما درخواست نماید تا سه هزار و چهارصد کیلوگرم نقره، ده هزار کیلوگرم گندم، دو هزار لیتر شراب، دو هزار لیتر روغن زیتون و هر مقدار نمک که لازم باشد فوری به او بدهید. | 21 |
“And I, King Artaxerxes, command this to all the treasurers in the province west of the [Euphrates] River: 'Give to Ezra, the priest who has studied very well the laws of the God [who is/rules] in heaven, everything that he requests, and give it to him quickly.
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The most that you should give to him is (7,500 pounds/3,400 kg.) of silver, 500 bushels of wheat, 550 gallons of wine, and 550 gallons of [olive] oil, but give to him all the salt that they need.
| هر چه خدای آسمان فرموده باشد، بدون تأخیر برای خانهٔ او بجا آورید، مبادا خشم خدا بر من و خاندانم نازل شود. | 23 |
Be sure that you provide whatever their God requires for his temple, because we certainly do not [RHQ] want him to be angry with me or with my descendants who will later be kings.
| همچنین اعلان می‌کنم که تمام کاهنان، لاویان، نوازندگان، نگهبانان، خدمتگزاران و سایر کارکنان خانهٔ خدا از پرداخت هرگونه مالیات معاف هستند. | 24 |
We are also commanding that none of the priests, descendants of Levi, musicians, temple guards, or other men who work in the temple, will be required to pay any kind of taxes.'
| و تو ای عِزرا، با حکمتی که خدا به تو داده است، حکام و قضاتی را که شریعت خدایت را می‌دانند برای رسیدگی به مسائل مردم غرب رود فرات انتخاب کن. اگر آنها با شریعت خدای تو آشنا نباشند، باید ایشان را تعلیم دهی. | 25 |
“Ezra, your God has enabled you to become very wise. Using that wisdom, appoint men in the province west of the [Euphrates] River who will judge cases involving the people, and men who will judge cases involving the government. You must appoint men who know the laws of your God. All of you must teach God’s laws to others who do not know them.
| اگر کسی نخواهد از شریعت خدای تو و دستور پادشاه اطاعت کند، باید بی‌درنگ مجازات شود؛ مجازات او یا مرگ است یا تبعید، یا ضبط اموال یا زندان. | 26 |
Everyone who does not obey God’s laws or the laws of my government must be punished severely. Some of them will be executed, some will be put in prison, some will be sent out of the country or have all their property taken away from them.”
| سپس عِزرا اینطور دعا کرد: «سپاس بر خداوند، خدای اجداد ما که این اشتیاق را در دل پادشاه گذاشت تا خانهٔ خداوند را که در اورشلیم است زینت دهد. | 27 |
[Because King Artaxerxes was very kind like that, I said], “Praise Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors [worshiped/belonged to]! He has caused the king to want to honor the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem.
| خداوند، خدایم را شکر می‌کنم که مرا مقبول پادشاه و مشاوران و تمام مقامات مقتدرش گردانید و به من قوت بخشید تا بتوانم سران طایفه‌های اسرائیل را جمع کنم تا با من به اورشلیم بازگردند.» | 28 |
Because God was very kind to me, the king and all his advisors and all his powerful officials have also been kind to me. So, because God has helped me, I have become encouraged, and I have [been able to] persuade some of the Israeli leaders to go up to Jerusalem with me.”
