Nehemiah 8
1 all the people gathered together as one man to the open place that was before the water-gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded Israel.
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
2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
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
3 And he read in it before the open place that was before the water-gate from the morning until midday, in presence of the men and the women, and those that could understand. And the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book of the law.
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
4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a high stage of wood, which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkijah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam.
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
5 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.
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
6 And Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God; and all the people answered, Amen, Amen! with lifting up of their hands; and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.
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
7 And 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.
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
8 And they read in the law of God distinctly out of the book, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading.
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
9 And Nehemiah, that is, the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that explained to the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Jehovah your God: mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
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
10 And he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared; for the day is holy to our Lord; and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.
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
11 And the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be still! for the day is holy; neither be grieved.
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
12 And all the people went their way, to eat and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great rejoicing. For they had understood the words that were declared to them.
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
13 And on the second day were gathered together the chief fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to gain wisdom as to the words of the law.
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
14 And they found written in the law which Jehovah had commanded through Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month,
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
15 and that they should publish and proclaim through all their cities, and at Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive-branches, and wild olive-branches, and myrtle-branches, and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
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
16 And the people went forth and brought [them], and made themselves booths, everyone upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the open space of the water-gate, and in the open space of the gate of Ephraim.
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
17 And all the congregation of them that had come back from the captivity made booths, and dwelt in the booths. For since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun until that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
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
18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they observed the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
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
