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6 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the archives where the official documents from Babylon had been deposited. 2 And at Ecbatana, the royal palace in the province of Media, a roll was found and in it was thus written: A record: 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: ’Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem let the house be rebuilt, where they offer sacrifices and bring him offerings made by fire; its height shall be sixty cubits, and its breadth sixty cubits. 4 It shall be constructed with three layers of huge stones and one layer of timber; and let the expenses be paid out of the king’s treasury. 5 Also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought to the temple which is at Jerusalem, each to its place; and you shall put them in the house of God.’
6 Now therefore, Tatteni, governor of the province beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and the rulers of the province beyond the River, go away from there; 7 let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God in its place. 8 Moreover I make a decree in regard to what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that out of the king’s wealth from the tribute of the province beyond the River the expenses be exactly paid to these men, and that without delay. 9 And whatever is needed, both young bullocks and rams and lambs for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven, also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the direction of the priests at Jerusalem, let it be given to them day by day without fail, 10 that they may regularly offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons. 11 Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall make this command invalid, a beam shall be pulled out from his house, and he shall be impaled upon it, and his house shall for this be made a refuse-heap. 12 And the God who hath caused his name to dwell there shall overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to make invalid the command or to destroy the house of God at Jerusalem. Exactly will it be executed.
13 Then Tatteni, the governor of the province beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did exactly as Darius the king had given command. 14 And the elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and according to the decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15 And this temple was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
16 Then the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy. 17 And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundreds rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve he-goats for a sin-offering for all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. 18 And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as is prescribed in the book of Moses.
19 And the returned exiles kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month. 20 For the priests and the Levites had every one of them purified themselves; all of them were ceremonially clean. And they killed the passover for al the returned exiles, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves. 21 And the Israelites who had come back from the captivity, and all those who separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land, to seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, ate 22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for Jehovah had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.