Esdra 3
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Ezra 3
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Or come fu giunto il settimo mese, e i figliuoli d’Israele si furono stabiliti nelle loro città, il popolo si adunò come un sol uomo a Gerusalemme. | And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem. |
Allora Jeshua, figliuolo di Jotsadak, coi suoi fratelli sacerdoti, e Zorobabel, figliuolo di Scealtiel, coi suoi fratelli, si levarono e costruirono l’altare dell’Iddio d’Israele, per offrirvi sopra degli olocausti, com’è scritto nella legge di Mosè, uomo di Dio. | 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. |
Ristabilirono l’altare sulle sue basi, benché avessero paura a motivo dei popoli delle terre vicine, e vi offriron sopra olocausti all’Eterno: gli olocausti del mattino e della sera. | 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. |
E celebrarono la festa delle Capanne, nel modo ch’è scritto, e offersero giorno per giorno olocausti secondo il numero prescritto per ciascun giorno; | 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. |
poi offersero l’olocausto perpetuo, gli olocausti dei noviluni e di tutte le solennità sacre all’Eterno, e quelli di chiunque faceva qualche offerta volontaria all’Eterno. | 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. |
Dal primo giorno del settimo mese cominciarono a offrire olocausti all’Eterno; ma le fondamenta del tempio dell’Eterno non erano ancora state gettate. | 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. |
E diedero del danaro agli scalpellini ed ai legnaiuoli, e de’ viveri e delle bevande e dell’olio ai Sidoni e ai Tiri perché portassero per mare sino a Jafo del legname di cedro del Libano, secondo la concessione che Ciro, re di Persia, avea loro fatta. | 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. |
Il secondo anno del loro arrivo alla casa di Dio a Gerusalemme, il secondo mese, Zorobabel, figliuolo di Scealtiel, Jeshua, figliuolo di Jotsadak, con gli altri loro fratelli sacerdoti e Leviti, e tutti quelli ch’eran tornati dalla cattività a Gerusalemme, si misero all’opra; e incaricarono i Leviti dai vent’anni in su di dirigere i lavori della casa dell’Eterno. | 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. |
E Jeshua, coi suoi figliuoli, e i suoi fratelli, Kadmiel coi suoi figliuoli, figliuoli di Giuda, si presentarono come un sol uomo per dirigere quelli che lavoravano alla casa di Dio; lo stesso fecero i figliuoli di Henadad coi loro figliuoli e coi loro fratelli Leviti. | 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. |
E quando i costruttori gettaron le fondamenta del tempio dell’Eterno, vi si fecero assistere i sacerdoti vestiti de’ loro paramenti, con delle trombe, e i Leviti, figliuoli d’Asaf, con de’ cembali, per lodare l’Eterno, secondo le direzioni date da Davide, re d’Israele. | 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. |
Ed essi cantavano rispondendosi a vicenda, celebrando e lodando l’Eterno, "perch’egli è buono, perché la sua benignità verso Israele dura in perpetuo". E tutto il popolo mandava alti gridi di gioia, lodando l’Eterno, perché s’eran gettate le fondamenta della casa dell’Eterno. | 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. |
E molti sacerdoti, Leviti e capi famiglia anziani che avean veduta la prima casa, piangevano ad alta voce mentre si gettavano le fondamenta della nuova casa. Molti altri invece alzavan le loro voci, gridando per allegrezza; | 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: |
in guisa che non si potea discernere il rumore delle grida d’allegrezza da quello del pianto del popolo; perché il popolo mandava di gran gridi, e il rumore se n’udiva di lontano. | 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. |