Ezra 3
1 and to touch [the] month [the] seventh and son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with city and to gather [the] people like/as man one to(wards) Jerusalem
After the Israeli people [returned to Israel, and] had begun to live in their towns, (in the autumn of/after the hot season ended in) that year, they all gathered together in Jerusalem.
2 and to arise: rise Jeshua son: child Jozadak and brother: compatriot his [the] priest and Zerubbabel son: child Shealtiel and brother: male-relative his and to build [obj] altar God Israel to/for to ascend: offer up upon him burnt offering like/as to write in/on/with instruction Moses man [the] God
Then Jeshua, the son of Jehozadak, and his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his friends, all began to rebuild the altar of God, the one whom the Israeli people [worshiped]. They did that in order that they could sacrifice burned offerings on it, according to what the prophet Moses had written in the laws [that God gave to him].
3 and to establish: establish [the] altar upon base his for in/on/with terror upon them from people [the] land: country/planet (and to ascend: offer up *QK) upon him burnt offering to/for LORD burnt offering to/for morning and to/for evening
Even though they were afraid of the people who were already living in that area, they rebuilt the altar at the same place [where the previous altar had been]. Before they started to lay the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, [the priests] started to burn sacrifices to Yahweh [on the altar]. They offered sacrifices every morning and every evening. Fifteen days after [they started to offer these sacrifices], the people celebrated the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters, as [Moses] had commanded them to do in the laws [that God gave to him]. Each day the priests offered the sacrifices [that were required] for that day. In addition, they presented the regular burned offerings and the offerings [that were required] for the New Moon Festivals and the other festivals that they celebrated each year to [honor] Yahweh. They also brought other offerings only because they desired to bring them, [not because they were required to bring them].
4 and to make: do [obj] feast [the] booth like/as to write and burnt offering day: daily in/on/with day: daily in/on/with number like/as justice: judgement word: portion day: daily in/on/with day: daily his
5 and after so burnt offering continually and to/for month: new moon and to/for all meeting: festival LORD [the] to consecrate: consecate and to/for all be willing voluntariness to/for LORD
6 from day one to/for month [the] seventh to profane/begin: begin to/for to ascend: offer up burnt offering to/for LORD and temple LORD not to found
7 and to give: give silver: money to/for to hew and to/for artificer and food and feast and oil to/for Sidonian and to/for Tyrian to/for to come (in): bring tree cedar from [the] Lebanon to(wards) sea Joppa like/as permission Cyrus king Persia upon them
Then the Israelis hired masons and carpenters, and they bought [logs from] cedar trees from the people of Tyre and Sidon [cities], and they gave those people food and wine and olive oil for the logs. They brought the logs down from [the mountains in] Lebanon [to the Mediterranean seacoast and then floated them along the coast of the Sea, ] to Joppa. King Cyrus permitted them to do that. [Then the logs were brought from Joppa inland up to Jerusalem].
8 and in/on/with year [the] second to/for to come (in): come them to(wards) house: temple [the] God to/for Jerusalem in/on/with month [the] second to profane/begin: begin Zerubbabel son: child Shealtiel and Jeshua son: child Jozadak and remnant brother: male-relative their [the] priest and [the] Levi and all [the] to come (in): come from [the] captivity Jerusalem and to stand: appoint [obj] [the] Levi from son: aged twenty year and above [to] to/for to conduct upon work house: temple LORD
The Israelis started to rebuild the temple in the (spring/time before the hot season) of the second year after they returned to Jerusalem. Zerubbabel and Jeshua and all the people who had returned to Jerusalem worked on the building. All the (Levites/men who did work in the temple) supervised this work.
9 and to stand: appoint Jeshua son: child his and brother: male-sibling his Kadmiel and son: child his son: child Judah like/as one to/for to conduct upon to make: [do] [the] work in/on/with house: temple [the] God son: child Henadad son: child their and brother: male-sibling their [the] Levi
Jeshua and his sons and his other relatives, and Kadmiel and his sons, who were descendants of Hodaviah, also helped to supervise the work. The family of Henadad, who were also all Levites, joined with them in supervising this work.
10 and to found [the] to build [obj] temple LORD and to stand: appoint [the] priest to clothe in/on/with trumpet and [the] Levi son: descendant/people Asaph in/on/with cymbal to/for to boast: praise [obj] LORD upon hand: power David king Israel
When the builders finished laying the foundation of the temple, the priests put on their robes and stood in their places, blowing their trumpets. Then the Levites, who were descendants of Asaph, clashed/banged their cymbals to praise Yahweh, just as King David had [many years previously] told [Asaph and the other musicians] to do.
11 and to sing in/on/with to boast: praise and in/on/with to give thanks to/for LORD for pleasant for to/for forever: enduring kindness his upon Israel and all [the] people to shout shout great: large in/on/with to boast: praise to/for LORD upon to found house: temple LORD
They praised Yahweh and thanked him, and they sang this song about him: “He is very good [to us]! He faithfully loves us Israeli people, and he will love us forever.” Then all the people shouted loudly, praising Yahweh because they had finished laying the foundation of Yahweh’s temple.
12 and many from [the] priest and [the] Levi and head: leader [the] father [the] old which to see: see [obj] [the] house: temple [the] first in/on/with to found him this [the] house: temple in/on/with eye: seeing their to weep in/on/with voice great: large and many in/on/with shout in/on/with joy to/for to exalt voice
Many of the [old] priests, Levites, and leaders of families remembered [what] the first temple [was like], and they cried aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid [because they knew that the new temple would not be as beautiful as the first temple]. But the other people shouted joyfully.
13 and nothing [the] people to recognize voice: sound shout [the] joy to/for voice: sound weeping [the] people for [the] people to shout shout great: large and [the] voice: sound to hear: hear till to/for from distant
The shouting and the crying was very loud; [even people] far away could hear it.
