Ezra 3
1 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.
Y llegado el mes séptimo, y los hijos de Israel en las ciudades, juntóse el pueblo, como un varón, en Jerusalem.
2 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].
Y levantóse Jesuá, hijo de Josedec, y sus hermanos los sacerdotes, y Zorobabel, hijo de Salatiel, y sus hermanos, y edificaron el altar del Dios de Israel, para ofrecer sobre él holocaustos, como está escrito en la ley de Moisés varón de Dios.
3 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].
Y asentaron el altar sobre sus basas, porque tenían miedo de los pueblos de las tierras: y ofrecieron sobre él holocaustos a Jehová, holocaustos a la mañana y a la tarde.
E hicieron la solemnidad de las cabañas, como está escrito, y holocaustos cada día por cuenta, conforme al rito, cada cosa en su día.
Y además de esto el holocausto continuo, y las nuevas lunas, y todas las fiestas santificadas de Jehová, y todo sacrificio espontáneo de voluntad a Jehová.
Desde el primero día del mes séptimo comenzaron a ofrecer holocaustos a Jehová, mas el templo de Jehová no era aun fundado.
7 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].
Y dieron dinero a los carpinteros y oficiales; comida, y bebida, y aceite a los Sidonios y Tirios, para que trajesen madera de cedro del Líbano a la mar de Joppe, conforme a la voluntad de Ciro rey de Persia acerca de esto.
8 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.
Y en el año segundo de su venida a la casa de Dios en Jerusalem, en el mes segundo, comenzaron Zorobabel, hijo de Salatiel, y Jesuá, hijo de Josedec, y los otros sus hermanos, los sacerdotes y los Levitas, y todos los que habían venido de la cautividad a Jerusalem; y pusieron a los Levitas de veinte años y arriba para que tuviesen cargo de la obra de la casa de Jehová.
9 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.
Y estuvo Jesuá, sus hijos, y sus hermanos, Cadmiel y sus hijos, hijos de Judá, como un varón, para dar priesa a los que hacían la obra en la casa de Dios: los hijos de Henadad, sus hijos, y sus hermanos, Levitas.
10 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.
Y los albañiles del templo de Jehová echaron los cimientos, y pusieron a los sacerdotes vestidos con trompetas, y a los Levitas, hijos de Asaf, con címbalos, para que alabasen a Jehová por mano de David rey de Israel.
11 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.
Y cantaban alabando, y glorificando a Jehová: Porque es bueno, porque para siempre es su misericordia sobre Israel. Y todo el pueblo jubilaba, con grande júbilo, alabando a Jehová porque la casa de Jehová era acimentada.
12 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.
Y muchos de los sacerdotes, y de los Levitas, y de las cabezas de los padres, viejos, que habían visto la casa primera, viendo fundar esta casa lloraban a gran voz: y muchos otros daban grita de alegría a alta voz:
13 The shouting and the crying was very loud; [even people] far away could hear it.
Y el pueblo no podía discernir la voz del júbilo de alegría, de la voz del lloro del pueblo: porque el pueblo jubilaba con gran júbilo, y la voz se oía hasta lejos.
