以斯拉記 3	Ezra 3
以斯拉記 3:1 ^ 到了七月、以色列人住在各城、那時他們如同一人、聚集在耶路撒冷。	Ezra 3:1 ^ And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.
以斯拉記 3:2 ^ 約薩達的兒子耶書亞、和他的弟兄眾祭司、並撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯、與他的弟兄、都起來建築以色列　神的壇、要照神人摩西律法書上所寫的、在壇上獻燔祭。	Ezra 3:2 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:3 ^ 他們在原有的根基上築壇、因懼怕鄰國的民．又在其上向耶和華早晚獻燔祭。	Ezra 3:3 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:4 ^ 又照律法書上所寫的、守住棚節．按數照例、獻每日所當獻的燔祭。	Ezra 3:4 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:5 ^ 其後獻常獻的燔祭、並在月朔與耶和華的一切聖節獻祭、又向耶和華獻各人的甘心祭。	Ezra 3:5 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:6 ^ 從七月初一日起、他們就向耶和華獻燔祭．但耶和華殿的根基、尚未立定。	Ezra 3:6 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:7 ^ 他們又將銀子給石匠、木匠、把糧食、酒、油、給西頓人、推羅人、使他們將香柏樹從利巴嫩運到海裡、浮海運到約帕、是照波斯王古列所允准的。	Ezra 3:7 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:8 ^ 百姓到了耶路撒冷　神殿的地方、第二年二月、撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯、約薩達的兒子耶書亞、和其餘的弟兄、就是祭司、利未人、並一切被擄歸回耶路撒冷的人、都興工建造．又派利未人、從二十歲以外的、督理建造耶和華殿的工作。	Ezra 3:8 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:9 ^ 於是猶大〔在二章四十節作何達威雅〕的後裔、就是耶書亞、和他的子孫與弟兄、甲篾和他的子孫、利未人希拿達的子孫與弟兄、都一同起來、督理那在　神殿作工的人。	Ezra 3:9 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:10 ^ 匠人立耶和華殿根基的時候、祭司皆穿禮服吹號、亞薩的子孫利未人敲鈸、照以色列王大衛所定的例、都站著讚美耶和華。	Ezra 3:10 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:11 ^ 他們彼此唱和、讚美稱謝耶和華、說、他本為善、他向以色列人永發慈愛．他們讚美耶和華的時候、眾民大聲呼喊、因耶和華殿的根基已經立定．	Ezra 3:11 ^ 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.
以斯拉記 3:12 ^ 然而有許多祭司、利未人、族長、就是見過舊殿的老年人、現在親眼看見立這殿的根基、便大聲哭號．也有許多人大聲歡呼．	Ezra 3:12 ^ 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:
以斯拉記 3:13 ^ 甚至百姓不能分辨歡呼的聲音、和哭號的聲音、因為眾人大聲呼喊、聲音聽到遠處。	Ezra 3:13 ^ 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.