1 Tendo chegado o sétimo mês, e estando os filhos de Israel nas cidades, ajuntou-se o povo, como um só homem, em Jerusalém.

2 Então se levantou Jesua, filho de Jozadaque, e seus irmãos, sacerdotes, e Zorobabel, filho de Sealtiel, e seus irmãos, e edificaram o altar do Deus de Israel, para oferecerem sobre ele holocaustos, como está escrito na lei de Moisés, homem de Deus.

3 Colocaram o altar sobre a sua base (pois o terror estava sobre eles por causa dos povos de outras terras), e ofereceram sobre ele holocaustos a Jeová, holocaustos da manhã e da tarde.

4 Celebraram a festa dos tabernáculos, como está escrito, e ofereceram os holocaustos diários segundo o número ordenado para cada dia;

5 e em seguida o holocausto perpétuo, e as ofertas das luas novas, de todas as festas fixas e consagradas de Jeová, e de todos os que faziam ofertas voluntárias a Jeová.

6 Desde o primeiro dia do sétimo mês começaram a oferecer holocaustos a Jeová, mas ainda se não tinham lançado os fundamentos do templo de Jeová.

7 Deram dinheiro aos pedreiros e aos carpinteiros; e comida, e bebida, e azeite aos de Sidom, e aos de Tiro, para que trouxessem do Líbano até o mar, e daí até Jope madeiras de cedro, segundo a permissão que lhes tinha dado Ciro, rei da Pérsia.

8 Ora no segundo ano da chegada deles à casa de Deus em Jerusalém, no segundo mês, Zorobabel, filho de Sealtiel, e Jesua, filho de Jozadaque, e os outros seus irmãos, sacerdotes e levitas, e todos os que tinham vindo do cativeiro para Jerusalém, puseram mãos à obra e constituíram os levitas da idade de vinte anos e daí para cima, para superintenderem a obra da casa de Jeová.

9 Então se apresentaram Jesua com seus filhos e seus irmãos, Cadmiel e seus filhos, filhos de Judá, para superintenderem os que trabalhavam na casa de Deus, bem como os filhos de Hanadade com seus filhos e irmãos, levitas.

10 Quando os edificadores lançaram os alicerces do templo de Jeová, apresentaram-se os sacerdotes, trajando as suas vestes e com trombetas, e os levitas, filhos de Asafe, com címbalos, para louvarem a Jeová, segundo a ordem de Davi, rei de Israel.

11 Cantavam uns aos outros, louvando a Jeová e dando-lhe graças com estas palavras: Porque ele é bom; porque a sua misericórdia dura para sempre sobre Israel. Todo o povo levantou grandes brados, louvando a Jeová, por se terem lançado os alicerces da casa de Jeová.

12 Muitos, porém, dos sacerdotes, dos levitas e dos cabeças das famílias, homens idosos, que tinham visto a primeira casa, choraram em altas vozes, quando foram lançados à sua vista os alicerces desta casa; e o júbilo de muitos manifestou-se em gritos,

13 de maneira que não podia o povo discernir as vozes do júbilo de alegria das vozes do choro do povo. Pois o povo levantou grandes brados, cujo som se ouviu de mui longe.

1 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.