现在当与我们的神立约,休这一切的妻,离绝她们所生的,照着我主和那因神命令战兢之人所议定的,按律法而行。
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
你起来,这是你当办的事,我们必帮助你,你当奋勉而行。
Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
以斯拉从神殿前起来,进入以利亚实的儿子约哈难的屋里,到了那里不吃饭,也不喝水。因为被掳归回之人所犯的罪,心里悲伤。
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
他们通告犹大和耶路撒冷被掳归回的人,叫他们在耶路撒冷聚集。
And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;
凡不遵首领和长老所议定,三日之内不来的,就必抄他的家,使他离开被掳归回之人的会。
And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
耶和华对摩西说,你进去见法老。我使他和他臣仆的心刚硬,为要在他们中间显我这些神迹,
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
并要叫你将我向埃及人所作的事,和在他们中间所行的神迹,传于你儿子和你孙子的耳中,好叫你们知道我是耶和华。
And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
你若不肯容我的百姓去,明天我要使蝗虫进入你的境内,
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
法老的臣仆对法老说,这人为我们的网罗要到几时呢。容这些人去事奉耶和华他们的神吧,埃及已经败坏了,你还不知道吗。
And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
摩西说,我们要和我们老的少的,儿子女儿同去,且把羊群牛群一同带去,因为我们务要向耶和华守节。
And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.