Esra 3
1 Och då sjunde månaden kom, och Israels barn nu voro i sina städer, kom folket tillhopa, såsom en man, till Jerusalem.
And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.
2 Och Jesua, Jozadaks son, och hans bröder Presterna, och Serubbabel, Sealthiels son, och hans bröder stodo upp, och byggde Israels Guds altare, till att offra bränneoffer deruppå, såsom skrifvet står i Mose dens Guds mansens lag.
Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, got up and made the altar of the God of Israel for burned offerings as is recorded in the law of Moses, the man of God.
3 Och de satte altaret uppå sin fot; ty en förskräckelse var ibland dem, för folket i landen; och offrade Herranom bränneoffer deruppå om morgon och afton.
They put the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the people of the countries: and they made burned offerings on it to the Lord, even burned offerings morning and evening.
4 Och de höllo löfhyddohögtid, såsom det skrifvet står, och gjorde bränneoffer hvar dag, efter det tal som det sig borde, hvar dagen sitt offer;
And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.
5 Derefter ock de dageliga bränneoffer, och nymånadas, och alla Herrans högtidsdagars, som helgade voro, och all friviljog offer, som de Herranom friviljeliga gjorde.
And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord.
6 På första dagen i sjunde månadenom begynte de att göra Herranom bränneoffer; men grundvalen till Herrans tempel var ännu icke lagd.
From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.
7 Men de gåfvo stenhuggarom och timbermannom penningar, och spis, och dryck, och oljo, dem i Zidon och Tyro, att de skulle låta komma cedreträ af Libanon till sjös intill Japho; efter Cores, Konungens af Persien, befallning till dem.
And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.
8 Uti andro årena, sedan de kommo till Guds hus i Jerusalem, uti dem andra månadenom, begynte Serubbabel, Sealthiels son, och Jesua, Jozadaks son, och de andre af deras bröder, Prester och Leviter, och alle de som af fängelset komne voro till Jerusalem; och skickade Leviterna, allt ifrå tjugu år och derutöfver, att de skulle drifva verket på Herrans hus.
Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.
9 Och Jesua stod, med sina söner och bröder, och Kadmiel, med sina söner, och Juda barn, såsom en man, till att drifva arbetarena på Guds hus; nämliga Henadads barn, med deras barn, och deras bröder Leviterna.
Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites.
10 Och då byggningsmännerna lade grundvalen på Herrans tempel, stodo Presterna klädde, med trummeter, och Leviterna, Assaphs barn, med cymbaler, till att lofva Herran, med Davids dikt, Israels Konungs;
And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel.
11 Och söngo emot hvarannan, med lof och tacksägelse Herranom, att han god är, och hans barmhertighet varar i evighet öfver Israel. Och allt folket upphof sin röst till Herrans lof, att grunden på Herrans hus lagd var.
And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place.
12 Men månge af de gamla Prester och Leviter, och öfverste fäder, som det förra huset sett hade i dess grundval, och detta hus var för deras ögon, greto med höga röst; dock upphöjde månge sina röst till glädje;
But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:
13 Så att folket icke kunde känna det glädjerop, för gråtropet i folkena; ty folket ropade högt, så att man hörde ropet långt ifrå.
So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.
