Esdras 3

1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God. 3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening. 4 They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required; 5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to Yahweh. 6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid. 7 They also gave money to the masons and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.

8 Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house. 9 Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.

10 When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel. 11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, "For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel." All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.

12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy, 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.

Ka Tīmata anō te Koropiko i Hiruhārama

1 Nā, i te takanga mai o te whitu o ngā marama, ā, i ngā pā ngā tama a Īharaira, me te mea he tangata kotahi te iwi ki te huihui ki Hiruhārama. 2 Kātahi ka tū a Hehua tama a Iohereke ki runga, me ōna tēina, ngā tohunga, me Herupapera tama a Haratiera, me ōna tēina, ā, hangā ana e rātou te āta a te Atua o Īharaira, hei whakaekenga mō ngā tahunga tinana kia rite ai ki te mea i tuhituhia ki te ture a Mohi, a tā te Atua tangata. 3 Nā, whakatūria ana e rātou te āta ki tōna tūranga; i wehi hoki rātou i ngā tāngata o aua whenua. Ā, whakaekea atu ana e rātou ki runga ngā tahunga tinana ki a Ihowā, ngā tahunga tinana o te ata, o te ahiahi.

4 I mahia anō e rātou te Hākari Tīhokahoka, tērā i tuhituhia rā; i whakaekea anō ngā tahunga tinana o tēnei rā, o tēnei rā, rite tonu te maha; rite tonu ngā tikanga, ko ngā mea mō tēnei rā i tēnei rā. 5 Ā muri iho ko ngā tahunga tinana tūturu, ko o ngā kōwhititanga marama ko o ngā wā katoa i whakaritea e Ihowā, he mea whakatapu nāna, me a te hunga katoa i tāpae noa i te whakahere ki a Ihowā.

6 Nō te rā tuatahi o te whitu o ngā marama i tīmata ai te whakaeke i ngā tahunga tinana ki a Ihowā; otiia, kāhore anō te tūranga mō te temepara o Ihowā kia takoto noa. 7 Nā, i hoatu e rātou he hiriwa ki ngā kaimahi katoa, ki ngā kāmura; ā, me ētahi mea hei kai; hei inu, me te hinu mā ngā Haironi, mā ngā Tāirani, hei mea mō ētahi rākau hīta kia kawea mai i Repanōna ki te moana, ki Hopa, kia rite ai ki te kupu hōmai a Hairuha kīngi o Pahia ki a rātou.

Kua Takoto te Tūāpapa o te Temepara

8 Nā, i te rua o ngā tau o tō rātou taenga ki te whare o te Atua, ki Hiruhārama, i te rua o ngā marama, ka tīmata a Herupapera tama a Haratiera, me Hehua tama a Iohereke, me ērā atu o ō rātou tēina, o ngā tohunga o ngā Rīwaiti, me te hunga katoa i maunu mai i te whakarau ki Hiruhārama; i whakaritea anō e rāua ngā Rīwaiti, te hunga e rua tekau, maha atu rānei, ō rātou tau, hei kaitirotiro i te mahinga o te whare o Ihowā. 9 Kātahi ka tū a Hehua me āna tama me ōna tēina, a Karamiēre me āna tama, me ngā tama hoki a Hūrā, ānō he tangata kotahi, hei kaitirotiro i ngā kaimahi o te whare o te Atua. Ko ngā tama a Henarara, rātou ko ā rātou tama, ko ō rātou tēina, ko ngā Rīwaiti.

10 Nā, i te whakatakotoranga a ngā kaimahi i te tūranga o te temepara o Ihowā, ka whakatūria ngā tohunga, kākahu rawa ngā kākahu, he tētere anō kei a rātou, me ngā Rīwaiti, ngā tama a Āhapa e mau himipora ana, hei whakamoemiti mō Ihowā, hei pērā me tā Rāwiri kīngi o Īharaira i whakarite ai. 11 Nā, ka waiata rātou tētahi ki tētahi, ka whakamoemiti, ka whakawhetai ki a Ihowā, me te mea:

"He pai hoki ia,

ā, he mau tonu tāna mahi tohu ki a Īharaira."

Nā, hāmama katoa ana te iwi, he nui te hāmama; ka whakamoemiti ki a Ihowā, nō te mea ka takoto te tūranga o te whare o Ihowā. 12 Nā, he tokomaha o ngā tohunga, o ngā Rīwaiti, o ngā upoko o ngā whare o ngā mātua, he koroheke, i kite i te whare tuatahi, nō tō rātou kitenga i te tūranga mō tēnei whare i tō rātou aroaro, ka tangi, he nui te reo; ā, he tokomaha i hāmama te reo i te koa. 13 Nā, kīhai te reo o te hāmama koa i taea e te iwi te wehe i roto i te reo o te iwi e tangi ana; he nui hoki te hāmama i hāmama ai te iwi, ka rangona te reo i tawhiti.