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Worship Restored at Jerusalem

¹And when the ⚓seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. ²Then Jeshua the son of ⚓Jozadak and his brethren the priests, ⚓and Zerubbabel the son of ⚓Shealtiel and his brethren, arose 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. ³Though fear had come upon them because of the people of those countries, they set the altar on its bases; and they offered ⚓burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening burnt offerings. ⁴⚓They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, ⚓as it is written, and ⚓offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day. ⁵Afterwards they offered the ⚓regular burnt offering, and those for New Moons and for all the appointed feasts of the Lord that were consecrated, and those of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to the Lord. ⁶From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, although the foundation of the temple of the Lord had not been laid. ⁷They also gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and ⚓food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to ⚓Joppa, ⚓according to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

Restoration of the Temple Begins

⁸Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, ⚓Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began work⚓and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the house of the Lord. ⁹Then Jeshua with his sons and brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, and the sons of Judah, arose as one to oversee those working on the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
¹⁰When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, ⚓the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the ⚓ordinance of David king of Israel. ¹¹⚓And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord:
⚓“For He is good,
⚓For His mercy endures forever toward Israel.”
Then all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.
¹²But many of the priests and Levites and ⚓heads of the fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this temple was laid before their eyes. Yet many shouted aloud for joy, ¹³so 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 sound was heard afar off.

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Táq Loah Prông Sang Tamái

¹Tâng casâi tapul, moâm nheq tữh cũai proai I-sarel khoiq táq ntốq ỡt tâng máh vil alới bữm, chơ alới toâq rôm parnơi pỡ vil Yaru-salem. ²Yê-sua con samiang Yô-sadac cớp tỗp cũai tễng rit sang canŏ́h, cớp Saru-babel con samiang Sial-tiel, dếh tỗp sễm ai Saru-babel, alới táq loah prông sang tamái yỗn Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu cũai I-sarel, ien bốh crơng chiau sang tâng prông ki, dŏq táq puai samoât phễp rit Môi-se, la cũai Yiang Sursĩ, khoiq chĩc dŏq. ³Máh cũai ca píh chu loah ngcŏh máh cũai tâng cutễq ki, ma tỗp alới cutóng táq prông sang tamái bân ntốq tiaq. Chơ alới bốh crơng tâng prông ki muoi trỗ ễn dŏq chiau sang yỗn Yiang Sursĩ cu tarưp cu tabữ. ⁴Tỗp alới táq rit cha bũi Tangái Chóh Nloâh dŏq puai phễp rit khoiq bữn chơ; cu rangái alới bốh crơng chiau sang, táq samoât khoiq anoat dŏq tâng cu rangái. ⁵Moâm ki, tỗp alới chiau sang máh charán noau dốq bốh clâm cớp crơng chiau sang tâng Casâi Loŏh Tamái. Alới táq puai rit cha bũi machớng Yiang Sursĩ khoiq anoat yỗn rôm sang toam án, dếh chiau sang crơng yỗn Yiang Sursĩ puai mứt yoc. ⁶Tam cũai proai tỡ yũah táq Dống Sang Toâr tamái, noâng alới tabŏ́q bốh loah charán clâm dŏq chiau sang yỗn Yiang Sursĩ tâng tangái muoi, casâi tapul.

Tabŏ́q Táq Loah Dống Sang Toâr

⁷Moâm ki máh cũai proai ĩt práq chang cũai chiang cứt tamáu cớp chiang táq aluang. Cớp alới ĩt crơng sana, dỡq nguaiq, cớp dỡq nsễng o‑li‑vê dững asuoi pỡ vil Ti-rơ cớp vil Sadôn dŏq ralêq cớp aluang sê-da tễ cruang Lê-banôn; máh aluang nâi noau alỗi patũt tâng dỡq mưt yỗn toâq pỡ vil Yôp-pa. Dũ ranáq alới mbỡiq táq, la bữn roap mpỗl tễ Sai-rut, puo tâng cruang Pơ-sia.
⁸Yuaq ngkíq, tâng casâi bar, cumo tamái, toâq alới bữn chu pỡ ntốq Dống Sang Toâr tâng vil Yaru-salem, tỗp alới tayoâq atĩ táq. Máh cũai ca pruam táq ranáq la neq: Saru-babel con samiang Sial-tiel, Yê-sua con samiang Yô-sadac cớp tỗp tễng rit sang canŏ́h, tỗp Lê-vi, cớp dũ náq cũai ca píh chu loah pỡ vil Yaru-salem. Máh cũai Lê-vi tễ bar chít cumo achỗn têq cỡt cũai nhêng salĩq ranáq tâng Dống Sang Toâr tamái. ⁹Yê-sua la cũai tễ tỗp Lê-vi cớp máh con samiang án, dếh sễm ai án, cớp Cat-miel dếh con samiang án (tễ tŏ́ng toiq Hô-davia), nheq náq alới pruam táq loah Dống Sang Toâr. Máh cũai Lê-vi tễ sâu Hê-nadat pruam rachuai nhêng salĩq noau táq ranáq nâi.
¹⁰Toâq máh cũai chiang táng tanang Dống Sang Toâr, máh cũai tễng rit sang sớp au tuar cớp yống máh lavia. Cớp tỗp Lê-vi tễ sâu Asap ayễq sar cớp tayứng bân ntốq ki tê. Tỗp alới ũat khễn Yiang Sursĩ, táq puai samoât puo Davĩt khoiq patâp dŏq chơ. ¹¹Tỗp alới ũat cansái khễn Yiang Sursĩ, chơ ũat tar-ỡi loah tamái neq:
“Yiang Sursĩ la o lứq,
cớp án ayooq cũai I-sarel tái-mantái níc.”
Dũ náq cũai triau cupo khễn Yiang Sursĩ, yuaq tanang Dống Sang Toâr khoiq noau táng chơ. ¹²Ma noâng bữn sa‑ữi náq cũai thâu tễ tỗp tễng rit sang, tễ tỗp Lê-vi, cớp tễ tỗp sốt máh sâu ca khoiq hữm Dống Sang Toâr tễ nhũang; alới noâng ỡt acoan nhêng noau táng tanang Dống Sang Toâr tamái; chơ alới nhiam cớp cuclỗiq cucling hỡ. Ma máh cũai canŏ́h triau cupo bũi óh lứq. ¹³Tỡ bữn noau têq dáng sưong ũat khễn tỡ la sưong nhiam nhit, yuaq sưong ki casang hũal toâq pỡ ntốq yơng lứq.