Esdras 3
1 Y llegado el mes séptimo, y los hijos de Israel en las ciudades, juntóse el pueblo, como un varón, en Jerusalem.
And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.
2 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.
Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, got up and made the altar of the God of Israel for burned offerings as is recorded in the law of Moses, the man of God.
3 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.
They put the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the people of the countries: and they made burned offerings on it to the Lord, even burned offerings morning and evening.
4 E hicieron la solemnidad de las cabañas, como está escrito, y holocaustos cada día por cuenta, conforme al rito, cada cosa en su día.
And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.
5 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.
And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord.
6 Desde el primero día del mes séptimo comenzaron a ofrecer holocaustos a Jehová, mas el templo de Jehová no era aun fundado.
From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.
7 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.
And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.
8 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.
Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.
9 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.
Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites.
10 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.
And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel.
11 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.
And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place.
12 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:
But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:
13 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.
So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.
