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3 but when the seventh month arrived, the Israelites in the towns gathered like one man to Jerusalem, 2 and Joshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow-priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his fellows, started to erect the altar of the God of Israel and to offer sacrifices on it, as prescribed by the law of Moses the man of God. 3 They put the altar in its place because the surrounding peoples were a terror to them, and on it they offered sacrifices to the Eternal, morning and evening; 4 they held the festival of booths, as prescribed, and offered the regular number of daily sacrifices required each day of the festival, followed by the daily sacrifice, 5 the sacrifice at the new moon, at every fixed and sacred festival of the Eternal, and at every freewill offering made to the Eternal. 6 From the first day of the seventh month, sacrifice began to be offered to the Eternal.
The foundation of the temple of the Eternal was not yet laid, however. 7 But masons and joiners were hired, and Sidonians and Tyrians were furnished with food and drink and oil, to bring cedars down from Lebanon to the sea-coast at Joppa, in terms of the permit granted by Cyrus king of Persia.
8 It was in the second month of the second year, after they had reached the house of God at Jerusalem, that a start was made. Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jozadak, with the rest of their fellow-priests and with the Levites and all the exiles who had returned to Jerusalem, appointed Levites, from twenty years old and upwards, to superintend the work on the house of the Eternal; 9 whereupon the clan of Hodaviah, Jeshua and his sons and brothers, and Kadmiel with his sons, along with the clan of Henadad and their sons and brothers (who were Levites), undertook to superintend the workmen in the house of God.
10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Eternal, the priests took their place, furnished with trumpets, the Levites who were Asaphites, with cymbals, to praise the Eternal after the ritual of David king of Israel; 11 they sang their responses of praise and thanks to the Eternal, with the refrain, “For he is good, his kindness never fails to Israel”; and all the people raised a loud shout as they praised the Eternal that the foundation of the temple of the Eternal had been laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites and chiefs of the clans, old men who had seen the former house standing on its foundation, wept aloud at the sight of this house; and, as many were shouting aloud for joy, 13 the sound of the joyful shout could not be distinguished from the sound of the lament, though the people were shouting so loud that the sound was heard far off.