en_wyc2014 - 1Ez 6 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Then king Darius commanded, and they reckoned, or sought, in the biblet of books, which books were kept in Babylon. (Then King Darius commanded, and they searched through the books in the library, or in the archives, which books were kept in Babylon.)

² And one book was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province of Media, and such a sentence of the king was written therein. (But one book was found in the city of Achmetha, in the province of Media, in the castle there, and this statement about the king was written in it;)

³ In the first year of king Cyrus, Cyrus the king deemed, or ordained, that the house of God, which is in Jerusalem, should be builded (again) in the place where they offer(ed) sacrifices, and that they set (a) foundament supporting the height of sixty cubits, and the length of sixty cubits, (In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus ordained that the House of God, which was in Jerusalem, should be rebuilt in the place where they had offered sacrifices, and that they lay a foundation to support a height of sixty cubits, and a length of sixty cubits,)

⁴ and set they three orders of stones unpolished, and so the orders of new wood. And costs thereto should be given of the king’s house. (and build they the walls out of three rows, or three layers, of unpolished stones, and one row, or one layer, of new timber. And let its costs, or its expenses, be paid out of the king’s treasury.)

⁵ But also the golden and silveren vessels of God’s temple, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple of Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon, be they yielded, and borne again into the temple of Jerusalem, and into their place, which vessels also be set in the temple of God. (And also let the gold and the silver vessels from the Temple of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple in Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be given back, and returned to the Temple in Jerusalem, to be put again in their proper place in the Temple of God.)

⁶ Now therefore Tatnai, duke of the country that is beyond the flood, and Shetharboznai, and your counsellors, (the) Apharsachites, which be beyond the flood, depart ye far (away) from them; (And so now Tatnai, the governor of the province that is west of the Euphrates River, and Shetharboznai, and your counsellors, or your officials, the Apharsachites, who also live there in the province west of the Euphrates River, should go far away from these people, that is, they should leave them alone;)

⁷ and suffer ye, that that temple of God be made of the duke of (the) Jews, and of the elder men of them; and that they build (again) that house of God in his place. (and allow ye, that the Temple of God be rebuilt by the leader of the Jews, and their elders; yea, that they rebuild the House of God there in its place.)

⁸ But also it is commanded of me, that that behooveth to be made of those priests of (the) Jews, that the house of God be builded (again); that is, that costs be given busily to those men (out) of the ark, (or the coffer,) of the king, that is, of the tributes, that be given of the country beyond the flood, lest the work be hindered. (And it is also commanded by me, what behooveth to be done for those elders of the Jews, so that the House of God can be rebuilt; that is, that their costs, or their expenses, be given to them out of the king’s treasury, that is, from the taxes paid in the province west of the Euphrates River, so that the work shall not be hindered, or interrupted.)

⁹ That if it be needed, give they both calves, and lambs, and kids into burnt sacrifice to [the] God of heaven; (and also that) wheat, (and) salt, and wine, and oil, by the custom of (the) priests that be in Jerusalem, be given to them by each day, that no complaint be in any thing. (And that whatever the priests who be in Jerusalem need, give it to them, yea, calves, and lambs, and goat kids for the burnt sacrifices to the God of heaven; and also wheat, and salt, and wine, and oil, yea, whatever is needed for each day, so that no complaint be made about anything.)

¹⁰ And (then) offer they offerings to [the] God of heaven; and (also) pray they for the life of the king, and of his sons.

¹¹ Therefore this sentence is set of me, that if any man change this behest, a (piece of) wood be taken of his house, and be it raised up, and be he hanged thereon; soothly his house be forfeited. (And so this decree is given by me, that if anyone change this command, a piece of timber be taken from his house, and it be raised up, and let him be hanged upon it; and then his house be forfeited.)

¹² And God, that maketh his name to dwell there, destroy all the realms and people, that hold forth their hand to impugn and destroy that house of God, which is in Jerusalem. I Darius have deemed the sentence, which I will (to) be fulfilled diligently (I, Darius, have given this decree, which I command to be diligently fulfilled).

¹³ Therefore Tatnai, duke of the country beyond the flood, and Shetharboznai, and his counsellors, did execution, either fulfilled, so diligently, by that that king Darius had commanded. (And so Tatnai, the governor of the province west of the Euphrates River, and Shetharboznai, and his counsellors, or his officials, diligently fulfilled what King Darius had commanded.)

¹⁴ Soothly the elder men of (the) Jews builded (the Temple), and had prosperity, by the prophecy of Haggai, the prophet, and (the prophecy) of Zechariah, the son of Iddo; and they builded (it), and made (it), for [the] God of Israel commanded (it), and for Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia, (also) commanded (it);

¹⁵ and they performed this house of God till to the third day of the month Adar, which is (in) the sixth year of the realm of king Darius. (and they finished this House of God on the third day of the month of Adar, or March, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.)

¹⁶ And the sons of Israel, the priests and (the) deacons, and the others of the sons of (the) transmigration, that is, of them that came from the transmigration, made the hallowing of God’s house in joy; (And the Israelites, yea, the priests, and the Levites, and the others of the sons of the captivity, dedicated the House of God with great joy;)

¹⁷ and offered, in the hallowing of God’s house, an hundred calves, two hundred wethers, four hundred lambs, (and) twelve bucks of goats for the sin of all Israel, by the number of the lineages of Israel. (and offered, for the dedication of the House of God, a hundred calves, two hundred rams, and four hundred lambs, and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve goat bucks, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.)

¹⁸ And they ordained (the) priests in their orders, and deacons in their whiles (and the Levites in their divisions), upon the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

¹⁹ And the sons of (the) transmigration made pask, in the fourteenth day of the first month. (And the sons of the captivity kept, or observed, the Passover on the fourteen day of the first month.)

²⁰ For the priests and deacons as one man were cleansed, all they were (made) clean to offer pask to all the sons of (the) transmigration, and to their brethren (the) priests, and to themselves. (For all the priests and the Levites cleansed themselves, yea, they were all purified, and then they killed the Passover lamb for all the sons of the captivity, and for their fellow priests, and for themselves.)

²¹ And the sons of Israel ate, that turned again from the transmigration, and each man ate, that had separated himself from all the defouling of heathen men of the land, for to seek the Lord God of Israel. (And then the Israelites, who had returned from the captivity, and also each man who had separated himself from all the defiling of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, ate the Passover.)

²² And they made the solemnity of therf loaves seven days in gladness (And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy); for the Lord had made them glad, and had turned the heart of the king of Assur to them, (so) that he would help their hands in the work of the house of the Lord God of Israel.

¹ Forsooth in the second year of the realm of Darius, Haggai prophesied, and Zechariah, the son of Addo, a prophet, with Judea and in Jerusalem, in the name of the Lord God of Israel, upon them. [In the second forsooth year of the reign of Darius prophesied Haggai, and Zechariah, the son of Addo, prophet, with Judea and in Jerusalem, in the name of the Lord God of Israel, upon them.]

² Then standing Zerubbabel, the son of Salathiel, and Jesus, (or Jeshua, or Joshua), the son of Josedek, they began to build up the house of the Lord, that is in Jerusalem; when there were nigh to them, (yea), (the) prophets of the Lord, and helped them.

³ In that time came to them Sisinnes, the under-little-king of Syria and of Phenice (or of Phoenicia), and Sathrabuzanes, and his fellows. And they said to them,

⁴ Who commanded to you, that ye build this house, and this roof, and many other things (that) ye perform? and who be those builders [or and who be the builders], that build up these things?

⁵ And the elder men of Israel had grace of (or from) the Lord, when the visitation of them was made upon them that were of the captivity;

⁶ and they were not letted (or they were not hindered) to build up, to the time that it were signified to Darius of all these things, and an answer were taken again (or was received).

⁷ This is the ensample of the letter, that Sisinnes, the under-(little-)king of Syria and of Phenice (or of Phoenicia), and Sathrabuzanes, and their fellows, rulers in Syria and in Phenice (or in Phoenicia), sent to the king. To king Darius, greeting(s).

⁸ All things be they known to the lord the king; forsooth when we came into the region of Judea, and went into Jerusalem, we found men

⁹ building a great house of God, and a temple of great polished stones, and of precious materials in the walls;

¹⁰ and those works busily in making, and to help, and to make welsome in the hands of them, and in all glory, full diligently to be performed.

¹¹ Then we asked the elder men, saying, Who suffered you (or who allowed you) to build this house, and to build [or (to) found] these works?

¹² Therefore forsooth we asked them, (so) that we might make known to thee the men, and the provosts, or reeves; and we asked them the writing of the names of the masters of the work.

¹³ And they answered to us, saying, We be servants of the Lord, that made both heaven and earth [or that made heaven and earth];

¹⁴ and this house was builded before these many years of (or by) the king of Israel, that was great, and a full strong king, and it was destroyed again. [and this house was built before these many years of (or by) the king of Israel, great, and most strong, and it is full ended.]

¹⁵ And for our fathers stirred and sinned against [the] God of Israel, he betook them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, king of (the) Chaldeans;

¹⁶ and they destroyed and burned up this house, and they brought the people made thrall [or captive] into Babylon.

¹⁷ In the first year reigning Cyrus, king of Babylon, king Cyrus wrote to build up this house;

¹⁸ and those holy golden vessels and silvern, that Nebuchadnezzar had borne away from the house of God, that is in Jerusalem, and had (made) sacred (or had consecrated) them in his temple, again king Cyrus brought them forth from the temple that was in Babylon, and they were betaken to Zerubbabel, and to Sanabassar, the under-little-king.

¹⁹ And it was commanded to them, that they offer these vessels, and they should lay them up in the temple, that was in Jerusalem, and to build up that temple of God in that place. [And it is commanded to them, that they offer these vessels, and lay up in the temple, that was in Jerusalem, and that temple of God to build up in that place.]

²⁰ Then Sanabassar under-laid the foundaments (or the foundations) of the house of the Lord, that is in Jerusalem; and from thence unto now is (still) abuilding, and hath taken no full ending.

²¹ Now then, O king! if it is deemed of (or by) thee, that it be perfectly sought in the king’s libraries of king Cyrus, that be in Babylon; [Now then, if it is deemed of (or by) thee, O king! be it perfectly sought in the king’s libraries of king Cyrus, that be in Babylon;]

²² and if it were found in the counsel of king Cyrus, (that) the making of the house of the Lord, that is in Jerusalem, to be begun, and if it shall be showed of the lord our king, write he to us of these things. [and if it were found in the counsel of king Cyrus, to be begun the making of the house of the Lord, that is in Jerusalem, and it shall be showed of the lord our king, write he of these things to us.]

²³ Then king Darius commanded to be inwardly sought in the libraries; and there was found in Ecbatana, a borough town, that is in the middle region, a place (or a roll), in the which were written these things.

²⁴ The first year reigning Cyrus king, Cyrus commanded to build up the house of the Lord, that is in Jerusalem, where they burned with continual fire; [The first year reigning Cyrus king, Cyrus commanded the house of the Lord, that is in Jerusalem, to build up, where they burned with continual fire;]

²⁵ whose height was made of sixty cubits, and the breadth of sixty cubits, squared with three polished stones, and with solar (or throne) tree of the same region, and with one new solar (or with three rows of polished stones, and one row of new wood from the same region); and costs to be given (out) of the house of king Cyrus;

²⁶ and the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both golden and silvern, that Nebuchadnezzar bare away, that those [or that they] be put thither into the house, that is in Jerusalem, where they were put.

²⁷ And he commanded Sisinnes, the under-little-king of Syria and Phenice (or Phoenicia), and Sathrabuzanes, and his fellows, to do their (own) business, and they that were in Syria and Phenice (or Phoenicia) ordained rulers, that they should abstain them(selves) from the same place.

²⁸ And I also commanded to make it up (or to build it up) all (again), and I looked forth, that they help them that be of the captivity of (the) Jews, unto the time that the temple of the house of the Lord be full(y) ended (or finished);

²⁹ and a quantity to be given diligently to these men of the travail of the tributes of Celosyria and Phenice (or of Greater Syria and Phoenicia), to the sacrifice of the Lord, to Zerubbabel, the prefect, to bulls, and wethers (or rams), and to lambs; [and (out) of the travail of the tributes of Celosyria and Phenice diligently a quantity to be given to these men, to the sacrifice of the Lord, to Zerubbabel, prefect, to bulls, and wethers, and lambs;]

³⁰ also forsooth both wheat, and salt, wine, and oil, busily by all years, as the priests, that be in Jerusalem, ordained to be fulfilled each day, without any delay;

³¹ also that there be offered offerings of liquors (or of liquid sacrifices) to the highest God, for the king, and for his children, and pray they for the life of them.

³² And be it denounced (or announced), that whosoever over-pass anything of these things that be written, either [or] despise (them), be there taken a tree of their own, and be they hanged thereon, and their goods be escheated (or forfeited) to the king.

³³ Therefore also the Lord, whose name is inwardly called there, outlaw he each king and folk, that stretch out their hand to offend [or to forfend, (or to hinder)], or to evil treat that house of the Lord, that is in Jerusalem.

³⁴ I, king Darius, have made a decree, to be done as most diligently after these things.