Ezra 6
6:1Then Darius the king rendered a decree, and examined in the libraries, of which the treasuries were situated there in Babylon.
6:2And there was found in Achmetha the city, in the palace of the Mede city, one chapter of a scroll, and this was the record written in it.
6:3In the first year of king Cyrus, Cyrus the king rendered a decree concerning the house of God, the one in Jerusalem, saying, Let the house be built, and the place of which they sacrifice the sacrifices! And set the foundations, the height of sixty cubits, and the width of it sixty cubits,
6:4and three layers of fortified stones, and one layer of new timbers! And the expense shall be granted out of the house of the king.
6:5And the items of the house of God, the ones of gold, and the ones of silver, which Nebuchadnezzar brought forth from the house, of the one in Jerusalem, and carried into Babylon; even let them be given, and brought forth into the temple, of the one in Jerusalem, unto their place, and put them in the house of God!
6:6Now then Tatnai commandant of the other side of the river, Shethar-boznai, and his fellow-servants the Apharsachites, the ones on the other side of the river, be being far from there.
6:7And now leave alone the work of the house of God, and the ones guiding of the Jews, and the elders of the Jews! Let them build that house of God upon its place!
6:8And by me was rendered a decree to do through the elders of those Jews to build that house of God, and from the subsistence of the king, of the tribute on the other side of the river, that carefully an expense be given to those men to not cease work!
6:9And what ever deficiency -- both male offspring of oxen, and rams, and lambs for whole burnt-offerings to the God of the heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, olive oil, according to the word of the priests, the ones in Jerusalem, let it be given to them day by day, unalterable, what ever they should ask!
6:10That there might be a pleasant aroma offering to the God of the heaven, and they might pray for the life of the king, and his sons.
6:11And from me was rendered a decree, that every man who ever changes this word the timber of his house shall be demolished, and a stake being straight up he shall be pitched upon it, and his house will be for ravaging.
6:12And the God of whom encamps with his name there, he shall eradicate every king and people who should stretch out his hand to change and remove from view the house of God, that one in Jerusalem. I Darius rendered the decree. Carefully let it become!
6:13Then Tatnai the chief ruler on the other side of the river, and Shethar-boznai, and his fellow-servants, in so far as Darius the king sent, thus they did carefully.
6:14And the elders of the Jews built, and prospered at the prophecy of Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo. And they rebuilt, and made ready by the decree of the God of Israel, and by the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of Persia.
6:15And they finished this house by the third day of the month Adar, which is in the sixth year of the kingship of Darius the king.
6:16And they made (the sons of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the sons of the resettlement) a holiday of rededication of the house of God with gladness.
6:17And they offered for the holiday of rededication of this house of God; calves -- a hundred; rams -- two hundred; lambs -- four hundred; winter yearlings of the goats for a sin offering for all Israel -- twelve, for the number of the tribes of Israel.
6:18And they established the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their distributions, for service of the house of God, of the one in Jerusalem, according to the writing of the book of Moses.
6:19And the sons of the resettlement observed the passover on the fourteenth of the first month.
6:20For the priests and the Levites were purified, all were clean as one man. And they slew the passover for all the sons of the resettlement, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
6:21And the sons of Israel ate the passover -- the ones coming forth from the resettlement, and every one separating themself of the uncleanness of the nations of the land that was theirs to inquire of the lord God of Israel.
6:22And they observed the holiday of the unleavened breads seven days with gladness; for the lord gladdened them, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to fortify their hands in the works of the house of the God of Israel.