Esdra 3

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Iamque venerat mensis septi mus, et erant filii Israel in civita tibussuis. Congregatus est ergo populus quasi vir unus in Ierusalem.	1 And now the seventh month had arrived, and the sons of Israel were in their cities. Then, the people were gathered together, like one man, in Jerusalem.
2 Et surrexitIesua filius Iosedec et fratres eius sacerdotes et Zorobabel filius Salathiel etfratres eius et aedificaverunt altare Dei Israel, ut offerrent in eoholocautomata, sicut scriptum est in lege Moysi viri Dei.	2 And Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, rose up with his brothers, the priests. And Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, rose up with his brothers. And they built the altar of the God of Israel, so that they might offer holocausts upon it, just as it was written in the law of Moses, the man of God.
3 Collocaverunt autemaltare super bases suas, deterrentibus eos per circuitum populis terrarum, etobtulerunt super illud holocaustum Domino mane et vespere.	3 Now they set the altar of God upon its bases, while keeping the people of all the surrounding lands away from it. And they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord, morning and evening.
4 Feceruntquesollemnitatem Tabernaculorum, sicut scriptum est, et holocaustum diebus singulisper ordinem, secundum praeceptum pro singulis diebus;	4 And they kept the solemnity of tabernacles, just as it was written, and the holocaust of each day in order, according to the precept, the work of each day in its time.
5 et praeter holocaustumsempiternum illa etiam pro calendis et universis sollemnitatibus, quae erantconsecratae Domino, et pro omnibus, quae ultro offerebantur Domino.	5 And after these, they offered the continual holocaust, as much on the new moons as on all the solemnities of the Lord that were consecrated, and on all those when a voluntary gift was offered to the Lord.
6 A primodie mensis septimi coeperunt offerre holocaustum Domino; porro templum Deinondum fundatum erat.	6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer holocausts to the Lord. But the temple of God had not yet been founded.
7 Dederunt autem pecunias latomis et fabris, cibum quoque et potum et oleumSidoniis Tyriisque, ut deferrent ligna cedrina de Libano ad mare Ioppe, iuxtaquod concesserat Cyrus rex Persarum eis.	7 And so they gave money to those who cut and laid stones. Similarly, they gave food, and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, so that they would bring cedar wood, from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, in accord with what had been commanded of them by Cyrus, the king of the Persians.
8 Anno autem secundo adventus eorum ad templum Dei in Ierusalem mense secundo,coeperunt Zorobabel filius Salathiel et Iesua filius Iosedec et reliqui defratribus eorum sacerdotes et Levitae et omnes, qui venerant de captivitate inIerusalem, et constituerunt Levitas a viginti annis et supra, ut dirigerent opustempli Domini.	8 Then, in the second year of their advent to the temple of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the remainder of their brothers, the priests, and the Levites, and all who had arrived from the captivity to Jerusalem, began, and they appointed Levites, from twenty years and over, to hasten the work of the Lord.
9 Stetitque Iesua et filii eius et fratres eius, Cadmihel, Bennuiet Odovia quasi vir unus, ut dirigerent eos, qui faciebant opus in templo Dei;itemque filii Henadad et filii eorum et fratres eorum Levitae.	9 And Jeshua and his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, and the sons of Judah, like one man, stood so that they might have charge over those who did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brothers, the Levites.
10 Fundato igitur ab aedificatoribus templo Domini, steterunt sacerdotes inornatu suo cum tubis, et Levitae filii Asaph in cymbalis, ut laudarent Deumiuxta mandatum David regis Israel.	10 And when the builders had founded the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their adornment with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, stood with cymbals, so that they might praise God by the hand of David, the king of Israel.
11 Et concinebant in hymnis et gratiarumactione Domino: “ Quoniam bonus, quoniam in aeternum misericordia eius ”super Israel. Omnis quoque populus vociferabatur clamore magno in laudandoDominum, eo quod fundatum esset templum Domini.	11 And they sung together with hymns and confession to the Lord: “For he is good. For his mercy is over Israel unto eternity.” And likewise, all the people shouted with a great clamor in praise to the Lord, because the temple of the Lord had been founded.
12 Plurimi etiam senes desacerdotibus et Levitis et principibus familiarum, qui viderant oculis suisprius templum in loco suo, flebant voce magna; et multi vociferantes in laetitiaelevabant vocem.	12 And many of the priests and the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers and of the elders, who had seen the former temple, when now this temple was founded and was before their eyes, wept with a great voice. And many of them, shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
13 Nec poterat quisquam agnoscere vocem clamoris laetantium etvocem fletus populi, quoniam populus vociferabatur clamore magno, et strepitusaudiebatur procul.	13 Neither could anyone distinguish between the voice of clamor of joy, and a voice of weeping of the people. For the shouting of the people mixed into a great clamor, and the voice was heard from far away.