¹ Tol korral ütles Issand minule: 'Raiu enesele kaks kivilauda, endiste sarnased, ja tule mu juurde üles mäele! Ja valmista enesele puulaegas!

² Mina kirjutan laudadele need sõnad, mis olid endistel laudadel, mis sa puruks lõid, ja pane need laekasse!'

³ Siis ma valmistasin akaatsiapuust laeka ja raiusin kaks kivilauda, endiste sarnased; siis ma läksin üles mäele ja need kaks kivilauda olid mul käes.

⁴ Ja tema kirjutas laudadele endise kirja sarnaselt need kümme käsusõna, mis Issand oli kogunemispäeval teile kõnelnud mäe peal tule seest. Ja Issand andis need mulle.

⁵ Siis ma pöördusin ümber, tulin mäelt alla ja panin lauad laekasse, mille ma olin valmistanud, ja need jäid sinna, nagu Issand oli mulle käsu andnud.

⁶ Ja Iisraeli lapsed läksid teele Beerot-Bene-Jaakanist Mooserasse. Seal suri Aaron ja ta maeti sinna. Ja tema poeg Eleasar sai tema asemel preestriks.

⁷ Ja sealt läksid nad teele Gudgodasse, ja Gudgodast Jotbatasse, veeojade maale.

⁸ Sel ajal eraldas Issand Leevi suguharu kandma seaduselaegast, seisma Issanda palge ees, teenima teda ja õnnistama tema nimel kuni tänapäevani.

⁹ Sellepärast ei ole Leevil osa ega pärandit koos vendadega; Issand on tema pärisosa, nagu Issand, su Jumal, temale on öelnud.

¹⁰ Ja ma viibisin mäel niisama kaua kui eelmisel korral, nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd, ja Issand kuulis mind ka seekord: Issand ei tahtnud sind hukata.

¹¹ Ja Issand ütles mulle: 'Võta kätte, käi teele minnes rahva ees, et nad läheksid ja päriksid maa, mille ma vandega nende vanemaile olen tõotanud neile anda!'

¹² Ja nüüd, Iisrael, mida nõuab Issand, su Jumal, sinult muud, kui et sa kardaksid Issandat, oma Jumalat, käiksid kõigil tema teedel ja armastaksid teda, ja et sa teeniksid Issandat, oma Jumalat, kõigest oma südamest ja kõigest oma hingest,

¹³ et sa peaksid Issanda käske ja seadusi, mis ma täna sulle annan, et su käsi hästi käiks?

¹⁴ Vaata, Issanda, su Jumala päralt on taevas ja taevaste taevas, maa ja kõik, mis seal on.

¹⁵ Üksnes sinu vanemaid on Issand eelistanud, armastades neid, ja on pärast neid valinud nende soo, see on teid, kõigi rahvaste seast, nagu see tänapäeval on.

¹⁶ Lõigake siis ümber oma südame eesnahk ja ärge enam tehke oma kaela kangeks,

¹⁷ sest Issand, teie Jumal, on jumalate Jumal ja isandate Isand, suur, vägev ja kardetav Jumal, kes ei vaata isiku peale ega võta vastu meelehead,

¹⁸ kes teeb õigust vaeslapsele ja lesknaisele ja kes armastab võõrast, andes temale leiba ja riiet.

¹⁹ Seepärast armastage võõrast, sest te olete ise olnud võõrad Egiptusemaal!

²⁰ Issandat, oma Jumalat, pead sa kartma, teda pead sa teenima ja tema poole hoidma ning tema nime juures vanduma!

²¹ Tema on su kiitus ja tema on su Jumal, kes sulle on teinud neid suuri ja kohutavaid tegusid, mida su silmad on näinud.

²² Seitsmekümne hingega läksid su vanemad alla Egiptusesse, aga nüüd on Issand, su Jumal, teinud sind rohkuse poolest taevatähtede sarnaseks.

¹ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

² "Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

³ Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'Return to me,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will Return to you,' says Yahweh of Armies.

⁴ Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

⁶ But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"

⁷ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

⁸ "I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.

⁹ Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."

¹⁰ The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth."

¹¹ They reported to the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace."

¹² Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"

¹³ Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

¹⁴ So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

¹⁵ I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."

¹⁶ Therefore thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'

¹⁷ "Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"

¹⁸ I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.

¹⁹ I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

²⁰ Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.

²¹ Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."