1 En in die eerste jaar van Kores, die koning van Persië, het die HERE -- sodat die woord van die HERE uit die mond van Jerem¡a vervul sou word -- die gees van Kores, die koning van Persië, opgewek, dat hy 'n oproep deur sy hele koninkryk laat gaan het, selfs ook skriftelik, om te sê:

2 So sê Kores, die koning van Persië: Al die koninkryke van die aarde het die HERE, die God van die hemel, aan my gegee; en Hy het my opgedra om vir Hom 'n huis te bou in Jerusalem wat in Juda is.

3 Enigeen onder julle wat aan sy volk behoort -- mag sy God met hom wees, en laat hom optrek na Jerusalem wat in Juda is, en die huis van die HERE, die God van Israel, bou! Hy is die God wat in Jerusalem is.

4 En enigeen wat oorgebly het, in enige plek waar hy as vreemdeling vertoef -- hom moet die manne van sy woonplek ondersteun met silwer en goud en met goed en vee, en met die vrywillige gawes vir die huis van die God wat in Jerusalem is.

5 Toe het die familiehoofde van Juda en Benjamin klaargemaak, en die priesters en die Leviete -- elkeen wie se gees God opgewek het om op te trek, om die huis van die HERE wat in Jerusalem is, te bou.

6 En almal wat rondom hulle was, het hul hande versterk met silwervoorwerpe, met goud, met goed en vee en kosbare geskenke, behalwe alles wat hulle as vrywillige gawe aangebring het.

7 En koning Kores het die voorwerpe van die huis van die HERE uitgelewer wat Nebukadn,sar uit Jerusalem weggevoer en in die huis van sy god gesit het.

8 En Kores, die koning van Persië, het dit uitgelewer onder toesig van M¡tredat, die skatmeester; en die het dit aan S,sbassar, die vors van Juda, voorgetel.

9 En dit was hulle getal: dertig goue komme, duisend silwerkomme, nege en twintig messe;

10 dertig goue bekers; verder vier honderd en tien silwerbekers, duisend ander voorwerpe.

11 Al die voorwerpe van goud en silwer was: vyf duisend vier honderd; dit alles het S,sbassar saamgebring toe die ballinge uit Babel na Jerusalem opgetrek het.

1 Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,

2 These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

3 Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

4 And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.

5 Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.

6 And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered.

7 And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;

8 Even these Cyrus made Mithredath, the keeper of his wealth, get out, and he gave them, after numbering them, to Sheshbazzar, the ruler of Judah.

9 And this is the number of them: there were thirty gold plates, a thousand silver plates, twenty-nine knives,

10 Thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins, and a thousand other vessels.

11 There were five thousand, four hundred gold and silver vessels. All these were taken back by Sheshbazzar, when those who had been taken prisoner went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.