Nehemiah 8
1 And all the people assembled themselues together, in the streete that was before the watergate, and they spake vnto Ezra the Scribe, that hee would bring the booke of ye Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to 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 Lawe before the Congregation both of men and women, and of all that coulde heare and vnderstand it, in the first day of the seuenth moneth,
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 therein in the streete that was before the watergate (from the morning vntill the midday) before men and women, and them that vnderstoode it, and the eares of all the people hearkened vnto the booke of the Lawe.
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 stoode vpon a pulpit of wood which he had made for the preaching, and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Ananiah, and Vriiah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hande, and on his left hand Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and 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 booke before all the people: for hee was aboue all the people: and when he opened it, all the people stoode vp.
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 praysed the Lord the great God, and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting vp their handes: and they bowed themselues, and worshipped the Lord with their faces toward the grounde.
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 Also Ieshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Iamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Leuites caused the people to vnderstand the lawe, 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 booke of the Lawe of God distinctly, and gaue the sense, and caused them to vnderstand 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 Then Nehemiah (which is Tirshatha) and Ezra the Priest and scribe, and the Leuites that instructed the people, saide vnto all the people, This day is holie vnto ye Lord your God: mourne not, neither weepe: for all the people wept, whe they heard the words of the Lawe.
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 He saide also vnto the, Go, and eate of the fat, and drinke the sweete, and send part vnto them, for whome none is prepared: for this day is holie vnto our Lord: be ye not sorie therefore: for the ioy of the Lord 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 Leuites made silence throughout all the people, saying, Holde your peace: for the day is holy, be not sad therefore.
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 Then all the people went to eate and to drinke, and to send away part, and to make great ioy, because they had vnderstand the wordes that they had taught 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 the chiefe fathers of all the people, the Priests and the Leuites were gathered vnto Ezra the scribe, that he also might instruct them in the wordes of the Lawe.
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, (that the Lord had commanded by Moses) that the children of Israel should dwel in boothes in the feast of the seuenth moneth,
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 shoulde cause it to bee declared and proclaimed in all their cities, and in Ierusalem, saying, Go forth vnto the mount, and bring oliue branches, and pine branches, and branches of myrtus, and palme branches, and branches of thicke trees, to make boothes, 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 So the people went foorth and brought them, and made them boothes, euerie one vpon the roofe of his house, and in their courtes, and in the courtes of the house of God, and in the streete by the watergate, and in the streete 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 were come againe out of the captiuitie made boothes, and sate vnder the boothes: for since the time of Ieshua the sonne of Nun vnto this day, had not the children of Israel done so, and there was very great ioy.
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 And he read in the booke of the Lawe of God euery day, from the first day vnto the last day. and they kept the feast seuen dayes, and on the eight day a solemne assemblie, according vnto the maner.
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
