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|Esdras 6:1|
King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon.
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|Esdras 6:2|
A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it: Memorandum:
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|Esdras 6:3|
In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be ninety feet [Aramaic sixty cubits (about 27 metres)] high and ninety feet wide,
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|Esdras 6:4|
with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury.
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|Esdras 6:5|
Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in the house of God.
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|Esdras 6:6|
Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you, their fellow officials of that province, stay away from there.
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|Esdras 6:7|
Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. Let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site.
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|Esdras 6:8|
Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the Jews in the construction of this house of God: The expenses of these men are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury, from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop.
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|Esdras 6:9|
Whatever is needed — young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem — must be given them daily without fail,
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|Esdras 6:10|
so that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven and pray for the well-being of the king and his sons.
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