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WEBBE ¶ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid, with its height sixty cubits[fn] and its width sixty cubits;
WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)
NET In the first year of his reign, King Cyrus gave orders concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: ‘Let the temple be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered. Let its foundations be set in place. Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety feet,
LSV “In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king has made a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: let the house be built in the place where they are sacrificing sacrifices, and its foundations strongly laid; its height sixty cubits, its breadth sixty cubits;
FBV In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree regarding God's Temple in Jerusalem: Let the Temple be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered, and make sure it has strong foundations are firm. Make it sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
T4T “During the first year that Cyrus ruled the empire, he sent out a decree concerning the temple of God which is at Jerusalem. In the decree it was stated that a new temple must be built at the same place that the Israeli people previously had offered sacrifices, where the original foundation of the first temple was. The temple must be 90 feet high and 90 feet wide.
LEB In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued forth a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem. Let the house be built, the place where sacrifices are offered and let its foundations be raised. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,
BBE In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;
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JPS In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
ASV In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
DRA In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that the house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place where they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that may support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of threescore cubits,
YLT 'In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king hath made a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: the house let be builded in the place where they are sacrificing sacrifices, and its foundations strongly laid; its height sixty cubits, its breadth sixty cubits;
Drby In the first year of king Cyrus, king Cyrus made a decree [concerning] the house of [fn]God at Jerusalem: Let the house be built for a place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be solidly laid; its height sixty cubits, its breadth sixty cubits,
RV In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree; Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
Wbstr In the first year of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations of it be strongly laid; the hight of it sixty cubits, and the breadth of it sixty cubits;
KJB-1769 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
(In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Yerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; )
KJB-1611 In the first yeere of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Ierusalem: Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof of be strongly laid, the height therof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubites:
(In the first year of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Yerusalem: Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof of be strongly laid, the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits:)
Bshps In the first yere of king Cyrus, gaue the same king Cyrus commaundement concerning the house of God at Hierusalem, that the same house should be builded in the place where they offer the sacrifices, & to ioyne the walles together of threescore cubites heyght, and threescore cubites breadth.
(In the first year of king Cyrus, gave the same king Cyrus commandment concerning the house of God at Yerusalem, that the same house should be builded in the place where they offer the sacrifices, and to ioyne the walls together of threescore cubits heyght, and threescore cubits breadth.)
Gnva IN THE FIRST yeere of King Cyrus, King Cyrus made a decree for the house of God in Ierusalem, Let the house be buylt, euen the place where they offred sacrifices, and let the walles thereof be ioyned together: let the height thereof be three score cubites, and the breadth thereof three score cubites,
(IN THE FIRST year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus made a decree for the house of God in Yerusalem, Let the house be buylt, even the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the walls thereof be joined together: let the height thereof be three score cubits, and the breadth thereof three score cubits, )
Cvdl In the first yeare of kynge Cyrus, comaunded the same kynge Cyrus to buylde ye house of God at Ierusalem, in the place where the sacrifice is made, & to laye the foundacion to beare thre score cubites heyght, & thre score cubites bredth,
(In the first year of king Cyrus, commanded the same king Cyrus to build ye/you_all house of God at Yerusalem, in the place where the sacrifice is made, and to lay the foundation to bear three score cubits heyght, and three score cubits bredth,)
Wycl In the first yeer of kyng Cirus, Cirus the kyng demyde, that, `Goddis hows, which is in Jerusalem, schulde be bildid in the place where thei offren sacrifices, and that thei sette foundementis supportynge the heiythe of sixti cubitis, and the lengthe of sixti cubitis, thre ordris of stonys vnpolischid,
(In the first year of king Cirus, Cirus the king demyde, that, `Goddis house, which is in Yerusalem, should be builded/built in the place where they offren sacrifices, and that they set foundementis supportynge the heiythe of sixty cubits, and the lengthe of sixty cubits, three ordris of stonys unpolischid,)
Luth Im ersten Jahr des Königs Kores befahl der König Kores, das Haus Gottes zu Jerusalem zu bauen an der Stätte, da man opfert, und den Grund zu legen, zur Höhe sechzig Ellen und zur Weite auch sechzig Ellen,
(Im ersten Yahr the kings Kores befahl the/of_the king Kores, the house God’s to Yerusalem to bauen at the/of_the Stätte, there man opfert, and the Grund to legen, to Höhe sechzig Ellen and to Weite also sechzig Ellen,)
ClVg Anno primo Cyri regis, Cyrus rex decrevit ut domus Dei ædificaretur, quæ est in Jerusalem, in loco ubi immolent hostias, et ut ponant fundamenta supportantia altitudinem cubitorum sexaginta, et latitudinem cubitorum sexaginta,[fn]
(Anno primo Cyri king, Cyrus king decrevit as home of_God to_buildtur, which it_is in Yerusalem, in instead where immolent hostias, and as ponant fundamenta supportantia altitudinem cubitorum sexaginta, and latitudinem cubitorum sexaginta, )
UTN uW Translation Notes:
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks
בִּשְׁנַ֨ת חֲדָ֜ה לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֗א
in=year one to/for=Coresh Oh/the=king
Here the book begins to quote what was said on the scroll that the officials found in Ecbatana. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this with an opening quotation mark or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate the beginning of a quotation.
Note 2 topic: translate-ordinal
בִּשְׁנַ֨ת חֲדָ֜ה לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֗א
in=year one to/for=Coresh Oh/the=king
The Hebrew uses a cardinal number here, one, but there is not a significant difference in meaning between that and the way the Hebrew uses an ordinal number, “first,” in similar contexts elsewhere. If your language customarily uses ordinals for the numbers of years, you can do that here in your translation. Alternate translation: “In the first year of the reign of Cyrus as king”
Note 3 topic: translate-names
לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁ
to/for=Coresh
Cyrus is the name of a man. See how you translated it in 1:1.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks
בַּיְתָ֣א יִתְבְּנֵ֔א
house,the rebuilt
Starting here, and through 6:5, there is a quotation within a quotation. The book is quoting from the scroll that the officials found in Ecbatana, and within that scroll, the royal chronicles quote the decree of Cyrus. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this with an opening secondary quotation mark or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate the beginning of a quotation within a quotation.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
בַּיְתָ֣א יִתְבְּנֵ֔א & וְאֻשּׁ֖וֹהִי מְסֽוֹבְלִ֑ין
house,the rebuilt & and,foundations,its retained
The words built and raised mean similar things. They are a poetic parallel, as in Isaiah 58:12, “Your ancient ruins will be built; you will raise up the foundations of many generations.” Cyrus says basically the same thing twice for emphasis and clarity. If it would be helpful in your language, you could combine these phrases. Alternate translation: “I authorize the Jews to raise up a new temple.” However, there is a slight difference in meaning, and you could also choose to bring that out in your translation. The second phrase is more specific in that it implicitly indicates that the new temple is to be built on the site of the former one. Alternate translation: “I authorize the Jews to rebuild the temple … on the site of the former temple”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
בַּיְתָ֣א יִתְבְּנֵ֔א & וְאֻשּׁ֖וֹהִי מְסֽוֹבְלִ֑ין
house,the rebuilt & and,foundations,its retained
If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this with an active form, and you could say who would do the action. Alternate translation: “I authorize the Jews to rebuild the temple … on the site of the former temple”
Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
בַּיְתָ֣א
house,the
Alternate translation: “the temple”
Note 8 topic: translate-bdistance
רוּמֵהּ֙ אַמִּ֣ין שִׁתִּ֔ין פְּתָיֵ֖הּ אַמִּ֥ין שִׁתִּֽין
height,its cubits sixty width,its cubits sixty
If it would be helpful in your language, you could convert these measures into modern units. Alternate translation: “The temple is to be 90 feet high and 90 feet wide”
