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6 Then by order of king Darius search was made in the house of archives at Babylon, where the treasures were stored; 2 and at Ecbatana, in the citadel of the province of Media, a paper was found to this effect: “Memorandum: 3 in the first year of king Cyrus, a decree was issued by king Cyrus with reference to the house of God at Jerusalem. Let the house be built, the place where sacrifice is offered, let the foundations be laid, and let the building be ninety feet high and ninety feet broad, 4 with three layers of stone and one of timber, the expenses to be paid out of the royal revenue. 5 Also, the gold and silver utensils belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar removed from the temple at Jerusalem and took to Babylon, are to be restored and returned to their places in the temple at Jerusalem; put them in the house of God.” 6 “Now then, Tatnai satrap west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the generals west of the Euphrates, stand aside, 7 let the work on this house of God alone, allow the Jewish governor and the Jewish sheikhs to build this house of God on its site. 8 Furthermore, I decree that you are to assist these Jewish sheikhs in building this house of God: from the royal funds, the tribute collected west of the Euphrates, these men are to have their expenses promptly paid. See to this. Day by day without fail, let them have whatever they require, 9 young bullocks, rams, and sheep, to be burnt in sacrifice to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as the priests at Jerusalem demand, 10 that they may offer sacrifices to propitiate the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and of his sons. 11 And I issue this decree: if any man alters this command, a beam shall be taken from his house, he shall be impaled upon it, and, besides that, his house shall be made a dungheap. 12 May the God who has set up his Name there, crush any king or nation that shall attempt to alter this edict, or to destroy this house of God at Jerusalem! I Darius have issued a decree: let it be carried out to the letter.”
13 At these instructions from king Darius, Tatnai, the satrap west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai and their associates, acted promptly; 14 the Jewish sheikhs went on building, and, thanks to the prophesying of the prophet Haggai and of Zechariah the son of Iddo, they succeeded. They finished their building as the God of Israel had commanded, and as Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia, had decreed; 15 the temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.
16 The children of Israel, the priests and the Levites and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy; 17 they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, and four hundred sheep, with twelve he-goats as a sin-offering for all Israel, a he-goat for each clan of Israel. 18 They also arranged the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their classes, for the worship of God at Jerusalem, as prescribed in the book of Moses. 19 On the fourteenth day of the first month the exiles celebrated the passover; 20 the priests had purified themselves, to a man, all of them were pure, and the Levites killed the paschal lamb for all the exiles, for their fellows the priests and for themselves; 21 it was eaten by the children of Israel who had returned from exile and also by those who had joined them, forsaking the pollutions of the pagans in the land in order to worship the Eternal, the God of Israel. 22 For seven days the festival of unleavened bread was also celebrated with joy; for the Eternal had made them joyful, he had turned the heart of the king of Assyria towards them, to encourage them in their work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.