Neemias 8
1 E chegado o setimo mez, e estando os filhos d'Israel nas suas cidades, todo o povo se ajuntou como um só homem, na praça, diante da porta das aguas: e disseram a Esdras, o escriba, que trouxesse o livro da lei de Moysés, que o Senhor tinha ordenado a Israel.
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.
2 E Esdras, o sacerdote, trouxe a lei perante a congregação, assim d'homens como de mulheres, e de todos os entendidos para ouvirem, no primeiro dia do setimo mez.
3 E leu n'elle diante da praça, que está diante da porta das aguas, desde a alva até ao meio dia, perante homens e mulheres, e entendidos: e os ouvidos de todo o povo estavam attentos ao livro da lei.
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.
4 E Esdras, o escriba, estava sobre um pulpito de madeira, que fizeram para aquillo: e estava em pé junto a elle, á sua mão direita, Mattithias, e Sema, e Anaias, e Urias, e Hilkias, e Maaseias; e á sua mão esquerda, Pedaias, e Misael, e Melchias, e Hasum, e Hasbaddana, Zacharias, e Mesullam.
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.
5 E Esdras abriu o livro perante os olhos de todo o povo; porque estava acima de todo o povo; e, abrindo-o elle, todo o povo se poz em pé.
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].
6 E Esdras louvou ao Senhor, o grande Deus: e todo o povo respondeu, Amen, Amen! levantando as suas mãos; e inclinaram-se, e adoraram ao Senhor, com os rostos em terra.
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.
7 E Jesua, e Bani, e Serebias, Jamin, Akkub, Sabbethai, Hodias, Maaseias, Kelita, Azarias, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaias, e os levitas ensinavam o povo na lei: e o povo estava no seu posto.
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.
8 E leram no livro, na lei de Deus; e declarando, e explicando o sentido, faziam que, lendo, se entendesse.
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.
9 E Nehemias (que era o tirsatha), e o sacerdote Esdras, o escriba, e os levitas que ensinavam ao povo, disseram a todo o povo: Este dia é consagrado ao Senhor vosso Deus, pelo que não vos lamenteis, nem choreis. Porque todo o povo chorava, ouvindo as palavras da lei.
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.
10 Disse-lhes mais: Ide, comei as gorduras, e bebei as doçuras, e enviae porções aos que não teem nada preparado para si; porque este dia é consagrado ao nosso Senhor: portanto não vos entristeçaes: porque a alegria do Senhor é a vossa força.
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.”
11 E os levitas fizeram calar a todo o povo, dizendo: Calae-vos; porque este dia é santo: por isso não vos entristeçaes.
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!”
12 Então todo o povo se foi a comer, e a beber, e a enviar porções, e a fazer grandes alegrias: porque entenderam as palavras que lhes fizeram saber.
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.
13 E no dia seguinte ajuntaram-se os cabeças dos paes de todo o povo, os sacerdotes, e os levitas, a Esdras, o escriba: e isto para attentarem nas palavras da lei.
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.
14 E acharam escripto na lei que o Senhor ordenara, pelo ministerio de Moysés, que os filhos d'Israel habitassem em cabanas, na solemnidade da festa, no setimo mez.
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].
15 Assim o publicaram, e fizeram passar pregão por todas as suas cidades, e em Jerusalem, dizendo: Sahi ao monte, e trazei ramos d'oliveiras, e ramos d'arvores olearias, e ramos de murtas, e ramos de palmeiras, e ramos d'arvores espessas, para fazer cabanas, como está escripto.
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].
16 Saiu pois o povo, e os trouxeram, e fizeram para si cabanas, cada um no seu terrado, e nos seus pateos, e nos atrios da casa de Deus, e na praça da porta das aguas, e na praça da porta d'Ephraim.
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.
17 E toda a congregação dos que voltaram do captiveiro fizeram cabanas e habitaram nas cabanas, porque nunca fizeram assim os filhos d'Israel, desde os dias de Josué, filho de Nun, até áquelle dia: e houve mui grande alegria.
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.
18 E de dia em dia se leu no livro da lei de Deus, desde o primeiro dia até ao derradeiro; e celebraram a solemnidade da festa sete dias, e no oitavo dia, o dia da prohibição, segundo o rito.
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.
