Neemias 8

1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. 2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. 3 He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. 4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam. 5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up. 6 Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God.

All the people answered, "Amen, Amen," with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground. 7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place. 8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep." For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law. 10 Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength."

11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved."

12 All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

13 On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law. 14 They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month; 15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters,*8:15 or, booths as it is written."

16 So the people went out and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters,*8:16 or, booths everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate. 17 All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters*8:17 or, booths and lived in the temporary shelters, for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness. 18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

1 Nā, ka huihui te iwi katoa ānō he tangata kotahi, ki te marae i te Kūwaha Wai, ā, ka mea ki a Etera karaipi kia mauria mai te Pukapuka o te Ture a Mohi, o tērā i whakahaua e Ihowā ki a Īharaira.

2 Nā, ka mauria mai e Etera tohunga te ture ki te aroaro o te whakaminenga, o te tāne, o te wāhine, o te hunga katoa e mōhio ana ki te whakarongo, i te rā tuatahi o te whitu o ngā marama. 3 Ā, ka kōrerotia e ia i te marae i te Kūwaha Wai, i te ata iho ā taea noatia a waenganui o te rā, i te aroaro o ngā tāne, o ngā wāhine, o te hunga whai whakaaro. Nā, tau tonu mai ngā taringa o te iwi katoa ki te Pukapuka o te Ture.

4 I tū anō a Etera karaipi i runga i te tūranga rākau i hangā nei hei mea pērā, me te tū anō a Matitia, a Hema, a Anaia, a Uria, a Hirikia, a Maaheia ki tōna taha ki matau, ā, ki tōna taha ki mauī ko Peraia, ko Mihāera, ko Marakia, ko Hahumu, ko Hahaparana, ko Hakaraia, ko Mehūrāma.

5 Nā, wherahia ana e Etera te pukapuka i te aroaro o te iwi katoa; i runga ake hoki ia i te iwi katoa, ā, i tāna wherahanga, tū ana te iwi katoa. 6 Nā, ka whakapai a Etera ki a Ihowā, ki te Atua nui, ā, ka whakahokia e te iwi katoa, "Āmine, āmine." Me te ara anō ō rātou ringa, nā, tuohu ana rātou, koropiko ana ki a Ihowā, me te ahu anō ngā kanohi ki te whenua.

7 Ko Hehua anō, ko Pani, ko Herepia, ko Iamini, ko Akupu, ko Hapetai, ko Horīa, ko Maaheia, ko Kerita, ko Atāria, ko Iotāpara, ko Hanana, ko Peraia, me ngā Rīwaiti, kei te whakamārama i te iwi ki te ture; tū tonu hoki tērā te iwi. 8 Ā, mārama tonu tā rātou kōrero i te Pukapuka o te Ture, me te whakaatu anō i ngā tikanga, me te whakamārama anō i a rātou i te kōrerotanga.

9 Nā, ka mea a Nehemia, ko ia nei te kāwana, a Etera tohunga, te karaipi, me ngā Rīwaiti i whakaako nei i te iwi, ki te iwi katoa, "He rā tapu tēnei nā Ihowā, nā tō koutou Atua; kaua e tangi, kaua e pōuri." I te tangi hoki te iwi katoa i tō rātou rongonga i ngā kupu o te ture.

10 Kātahi ia ka mea ki a rātou, "Haere, kainga ngā mea mōmona, inumia ngā mea reka, hoatu anō ētahi wāhi kia kawea mā te hunga kāhore nei i takā he mea mā rātou. He rā tapu hoki tēnei nā tō tātou Ariki; kaua hoki e pōuri; kei te koa hoki ki a Ihowā he kaha mō koutou."

11 Heoi, i whakamārie ngā Rīwaiti i te iwi katoa, i mea, "Whakarongoa; he tapu hoki te rā nei, kaua hoki e pōuri."

12 Nā, haere ana te iwi katoa ki te kai, ki te inu, ki te hoatu i ētahi wāhi mā ētahi, ki te whakanui i te hari, nō rātou ka mōhio ki ngā kupu i whakapuakina nei ki a rātou.

Te Hākari o Ngā Whare Wharau

13 Nā, i te rua o ngā rā ka huihui ngā ariki o ngā whare o ngā mātua o te iwi katoa, rātou ko ngā tohunga, ko ngā Rīwaiti, ki a Etera karaipi, kia mōhiotia ai ngā kupu o te ture. 14 Nā, ka kitea he mea i tuhituhia ki te ture i whakahaua e Ihowā, arā e Mohi, mō ngā tama a Īharaira kia noho ki ngā tīhokahoka i te hākari i te whitu o ngā marama, 15 kia karanga nui hoki, kia pakū te reo ki ō rātou pā katoa, ki Hiruhārama hoki, kia mea, "Haere ki te maunga, tīkina he rau ōriwa, he rau rākau hinu, he rau ramarama, he rau nīkau, he rau rākau rau maha, hei hanga mō ngā tīhokahoka, kia rite ai ki te mea i tuhituhia."

16 Heoi, kua puta te iwi ki waho, kei te tiki, hangā ana e rātou he tīhokahoka mō rātou ki te tuanui o te whare o tēnei, o tēnei, ki ō rātou marae, ki ngā marae anō o te whare o te Atua, ki te marae i te Kūwaha Wai, ki te marae i te Kūwaha o Ēparaima. 17 Nā, kua hangā he tīhokahoka e te whakaminenga katoa o te hunga i hoki mai i te whakarau, ā, noho ana i raro i ngā tīhokahoka; kīhai hoki ngā tama a Īharaira i pērā, o ngā rā anō i a Hohua tama a Nunu ā taea noatia taua rā, ā, nui atu te koa.

18 I kōrerotia anō e ia te Pukapuka o te Ture a te Atua i tēnei rā, i tēnei rā, i te rā tuatahi ā tae noa ki te rā whakamutunga. Nā, e whitu ngā rā i mahi ai rātou i te hākari, ā, i te waru o ngā rā ko te huihuinga nui, ko te mea i whakaritea.