Ezra 3
3:1And the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in their cities, and the people were brought together as one man unto Jerusalem.
3:2And Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer upon it whole burnt-offerings according as written in the law of Moses, the man of God.
3:3And they prepared the altar upon its preparation place, but terror was upon them, because of the peoples of the lands. And they brought unto it the whole burnt-offerings, to the lord in the morning, and in the evening.
3:4And they observed the holiday of the tents, according to the thing being written, and the whole burnt-offerings day by day in number, according to the distinguishing manner of the reckoning day by day for it.
3:5And after this the perpetual whole burnt-offering, and for the new moons, and for all holidays to the lord were sanctified, and for every willing voluntary offering to the lord.
3:6On day one of the seventh month they began to offer whole burnt-offerings to the lord. But the house of the lord was not laid of a foundation.
3:7And they gave money to the quarriers, and to the fabricators; and food, and drink, and olive oil to the Sidonians, and to the Tyrians, to bring forth wood of cedars from Lebanon by sea to Joppa, by the decree of Cyrus king of the Persians, concerning this.
3:8And in the second year of their coming into the house of the lord God, the one in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel began, and Jeshua the son of Jozadek, and the rest of their brethren, the priests, and the Levites, and all the ones coming from the captivity into Jerusalem, and they established the Levites from twenty years and up, to bring success upon the ones doing the works in the house of the lord.
3:9And Jeshua stood and his sons, and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah over the ones doing the works in the house of God; the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brethren the Levites.
3:10And the ones building laid a foundation to build the house of the lord. And the priests stood being robed with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the lord by the hands of David king of Israel.
3:11And they answered in praise and confession to the lord, saying That he is good, that into the eon is his mercy upon Israel. And all the people shouted a great voice in the praising the lord at the groundwork of the house of the lord.
3:12And many from the priests, and the Levites, and rulers of the families -- the elders, the ones who beheld the first house on its groundwork, and this house with their eyes, wept a great sound, and many with a shout with gladness to raise up high a sound.
3:13And the people were not recognizing the sound of the cheering of gladness from the sound of the weeping of the people; for the people cried out with a great sound, and the voice was heard even from far off.