Книга Ездры 6
1 Тогда Дарий царь повеле, и искаша во книгохранителницах, идеже сокровище лежит в Вавилоне.
Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
2 И обретеся во Амафе граде Мидийстем в палате главизна едина, и сие писано бе в ней на память:
A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:
3 в лето первое Кира царя, Кир царь царь повеле о доме Божии, иже во Иерусалиме: дом да созиждется, и место, идеже жрут жертвы: и положи меру высоты лакот шестьдесят, широта его лакот шестьдесят:
In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid, with its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits;
4 и стены каменныя твердыя три, и стена древяная едина, иждивение же от дому царева да дастся:
with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
5 и сосуди дому Божия златии и сребрянии, ихже Навуходоносор взя от дому, иже во Иерусалиме, и пренесе их в Вавилон, да отдадутся и внесутся в дом, иже во Иерусалиме, на место, идеже и поставлени бяху в дому Божии:
Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.
6 ныне убо дадите, князие сущии за рекою, Сафарвузанай и сослужителие их Афарсахее, иже за рекою, далече отидите оттуду:
Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.
7 ныне оставите дело дому Божия: князие Иудейстии и старейшины их дом Божий той да созидают на месте своем:
Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
8 и от мене повелено бысть, да не когда что сотворите противно старейшинам Жидовским в созидании дому Божия онаго: и от имений царских даней сущих за рекою прилежно на иждивение да дается мужем тем, еже бы не престало дело то:
Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.
9 и еже аще оскудеет, и телцы и овны и агнцы, во всесожжения Богу небесному, пшеница, соль, вино, елей, по словеси священников, иже во Иерусалиме, да дается им по вся дни, еже аще воспросят,
That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail,
10 да будут приносящии благоухания Богу небесному и да молятся о жизни царя и сынов его:
that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.
11 и от мене уставлено повеление, да всяк человек, иже преступит повеление сие, возмется древо от дому его, и воздвижен обесится на нем, и дом его мне будет взят:
I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
12 и Бог, Егоже обитает имя тамо, да низвратит всякаго царя и люди, иже прострут руку свою пременити или разорити дом Божий, иже есть во Иерусалиме: аз Дарий поставих повеление, с прилежанием да будет.
May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.
13 Тогда Фафанай князь страны заречныя, Сафарвузанай и сослужебницы его, якоже посла Дарий царь, тако сотвориша тщателно.
Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.
14 Старейшины же Иудейстии созидаху и левити по пророчеству Аггеа пророка и Захарии сына Аддова. И создаша и совершиша по повелению Бога Израилева и по повелению Кира и Дариа и Артаксеркса царей Персских,
The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
15 и совершиша дом той даже до дне третияго, месяца Адара, иже есть в лето шестое царства Дариа царя.
This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
16 Сотвориша же сынове Израилевы, священницы и левити, и прочии сынов преселения обновление дому Божия в радости,
The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
17 и принесоша на обновление дому Божия телцев сто, овнов двести, агнцев четыреста, козлов от коз за грехи всего Израиля дванадесять, по числу колен Израилевых:
They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18 и поставиша священников в чинех своих и левиты в частех своих на служение дому Божия во Иерусалиме, якоже писано есть в книзе Моисеове.
They set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
19 И сотвориша сынове преселения пасху в четвертыйнадесять день месяца перваго:
The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
20 очищени бо бяху священницы и левити даже до единаго вси чисти, и пожроша пасху всем сыном преселения и братии их священником и себе самым.
Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
21 И ядоша сынове Израилевы пасху, иже от преселения, и всяк отлучивыйся от осквернения языков земли к ним, еже взыскати Господа Бога Израилева.
The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, ate,
22 И сотвориша праздник опресночный седмь дний в веселии, яко возвесели их Господь и обрати сердце царя Ассурска к ним, укрепити руки их в делех дому Бога Израилева.
and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.
