< نحمیا 8 >
| آنگاه تمام بنی‌اسرائیل به اورشلیم آمدند و در میدان روبروی دروازه آب جمع شدند و از عِزرای کاهن خواستند تا کتاب تورات موسی را که خداوند به قوم اسرائیل عطا کرده بود، بیاورد و بخواند. | 1 |
Ezra, who taught people the laws of Moses, [had a scroll on which] the laws of Moses were written. Those were the laws that Yahweh had commanded the Israeli people [to obey]. On October 8 of that year, all the people gathered together in the plaza/square that was close to the Water Gate. Men and women and [children] who [were old enough to] understand gathered together. Someone told Ezra to bring out that scroll.
| پس در روز اول ماه هفتم، عِزرا تورات موسی را آورد و بالای یک منبر چوبی رفت که مخصوص این کار ساخته شده بود تا موقع خواندن، همه بتوانند او را ببینند. سپس، در میدان روبروی دروازهٔ آب ایستاد و وقتی کتاب را باز کرد، همه به احترام آن بلند شدند. او از صبح زود تا ظهر از کتاب تورات خواند. تمام مردان و زنان و بچه‌هایی که در سنی بودند که می‌توانستند بفهمند، با دقت گوش می‌دادند. در طرف راست او مَتّیتیا، شمع، عنایا، اوریا، حلقیا، معسیا و در طرف چپ او فدایا، میشائیل، ملکیا، حاشوم، حشبدانه، زکریا و مشلام ایستاده بودند. | 2 |
So he brought it out and read it to the people. He started reading it early in the morning and continued reading it until noontime. All the people listened carefully to the laws that were written on the scroll.
Ezra stood on top of a high wooden platform that had been built just for that event. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah. At his left side stood Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
Ezra stood on the platform above the people, where they could all see him. He opened the scroll; and as he did that, all the people stood up, [and they continued to stand, to show respect for God’s word].
| عِزرا گفت: «سپاس بر خداوند، خدای عظیم!» و تمام قوم دستهای خود را بلند کرده، در جواب گفتند: «آمین!» و روی بر خاک نهاده، خداوند را پرستش کردند. | 6 |
Then Ezra praised Yahweh, the great God, and all the people lifted up their hands and said, “Amen! Amen!” Then they all bowed down with their foreheads touching the ground, and they worshiped Yahweh.
| سپس تمام قوم بر پا ایستادند و لاویان کتاب تورات را برای آنها خواندند و ترجمه و تفسیر کردند تا مردم آن را بفهمند. این لاویان عبارت بودند از: یشوع، بانی، شربیا، یامین، عقوب، شبتای، هودیا، معسیا، قلیطا، عزریا، یوزاباد، حنان و فلایا. | 7 |
Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah, were all (Levites/men who worked in the temple). They explained the meaning of the laws of Moses to the people who were standing there.
They also read from scrolls that contained the laws that God [gave to Moses], and they interpreted [into the Aramaic language] what they read, making the meaning clear so that the people could understand the meaning.
| وقتی مردم مطالب تورات را شنیدند، گریه کردند. پس عِزرای کاهن و نحمیا که حاکم بود و لاویان که تورات را تفسیر می‌کردند به قوم گفتند: «در چنین روزی نباید گریه کنید! چون امروز روز مقدّس خداوند، خدای شماست. | 9 |
Then I, Nehemiah the governor, and Ezra, and the Levites who were interpreting what was being read to the people, said to them, “Yahweh your God considers that this day is very holy/sacred. So do not be sad or cry!” They said that because all the people were crying as they were listening to the laws of Moses.
| نباید غمگین باشید، بلکه باید جشن بگیرید و شاد باشید، بخورید و بنوشید و از خوراک خود به فقرا بدهید. این شادی خداوندی، مایه قوت شما خواهد بود!» | 10 |
Then I said to them, “Now go home and enjoy [some] good food and drink [some] sweet wine. And send some of it to people who do not have anything [to eat or drink]. This is a day that Yahweh considers sacred. Do not be sad! Yahweh will cause you to be joyful and make you strong.”
| لاویان هم مردم را ساکت می‌کردند و می‌گفتند: «امروز روز مقدّسی است، پس گریه نکنید و محزون نباشید.» | 11 |
The Levites also caused the people to be quiet, saying “Be quiet [and do not cry], because this is a sacred day! Do not be sad!”
| قوم رفتند، خوردند و نوشیدند، خوراک برای فقرا فرستادند و شادی کردند، زیرا کلام خدا را که برای ایشان خوانده شده بود فهمیده بودند. | 12 |
So the people went away, and they ate and drank, and they sent portions of food [to those who did not have any]. They celebrated very joyfully, because they had heard and understood what had been read to them.
| روز بعد، سران طایفه‌ها با کاهنان و لاویان نزد عِزرا جمع شدند تا مطالب تورات را از او بشنوند. | 13 |
The next day, the leaders of the families and the priests and [other] descendants of Levi met with Ezra to study carefully the laws that Yahweh had given to Moses.
| وقتی تورات خوانده شد، آنها متوجه شدند که خداوند به موسی فرموده بود قوم اسرائیل در مدتی که عید خیمه‌ها را جشن می‌گیرند، باید در خیمه‌ها زندگی کنند | 14 |
While they were doing that, they realized that Yahweh had told Moses to command the Israeli people to live in shelters during that month, [to remember that their ancestors lived in shelters when they left Egypt].
| و تأکید شده بود که در تمام شهرهای اسرائیل و در شهر اورشلیم، اعلام شود که قوم به کوهها بروند و شاخه‌های درختان زیتون، آس، نخل و سایر درختان سایه‌دار بیاورند و خیمه درست کنند. | 15 |
They also learned that they should proclaim in Jerusalem and in all the towns that the people should go to the hills and cut branches from olive trees [that they have planted] and from wild olive trees and from myrtle trees and palm trees and fig trees. They should make shelters from these branches, and live in those shelters during the festival, just as Moses wrote [that they should do].
| پس قوم رفتند و شاخه‌های درخت آوردند و روی پشت بام و در حیاط خود، در حیاط خانهٔ خدا، در میدان دروازهٔ آب و در میدان دروازهٔ افرایم، خیمه‌ها درست کردند. | 16 |
So the people went out [of the city] and cut branches and used them to build shelters. They built shelters on the [flat] roofs [of their houses], in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the temple, and in the plazas/squares close to the Water Gate and the Ephraim Gate.
| تمام کسانی که از تبعید بازگشته بودند در مدت هفت روز عید، در سایبانهایی که ساخته بودند به سر بردند. آنها بی‌نهایت شاد بودند. از زمان یوشع به بعد، این مراسم رعایت نشده بود. | 17 |
All of the Israeli people who had returned from Babylon built shelters and lived in them [for one week]. The Israeli people had not celebrated that festival like that since the time that Joshua lived. And they were very joyful.
| در آن هفت روز جشن، عِزرا هر روز از کتاب تورات می‌خواند. روز هشتم مطابق دستور موسی، جمع شده، با عبادت خدا جشن را به پایان رساندند. | 18 |
Every day during that week Ezra read to the people from the scroll that contained the laws that God [gave Moses]. Then on the eighth day, just as one of the laws of God said that they should do, they gathered together to end the celebration.
