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Let its foundations be set in place. Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety feet, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized by the royal treasury. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Furthermore let the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God, which Nebuchadnezzar brought from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, be returned and brought to their proper place in the temple in Jerusalem. Let them be deposited in the temple of God.’</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Now Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar Bozenai, and their colleagues, the officials of Trans-Euphrates – all of you stay far away from there! <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Leave the work on this temple of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this temple of God in its proper place.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Whatever is needed – whether oxen or rams or lambs or burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by the priests who are in Jerusalem – must be given to them daily without any neglect, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>so that they may be offering incense to the God of heaven and may be praying for the good fortune of the king and his family.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled on it, and his house is to be reduced to a rubbish heap for this indiscretion. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation who reaches out to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!”</p> <p class="title">The Temple Is Finally Dedicated</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and their colleagues acted accordingly – with precision, just as Darius the king had given instructions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The elders of the Jews continued building and prospering, while at the same time Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo continued prophesying. They built and brought it to completion by the command of the God of Israel and by the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The people of Israel – the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles – observed the dedication of this temple of God with joy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the dedication of this temple of God they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their divisions over the worship of God at Jerusalem, in accord with the book of Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span> The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues the priests, and for themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The Israelites who were returning from the exile ate it, along with all those who had joined them in separating themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to seek the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> had given them joy and had changed the opinion of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he assisted them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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