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Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety feet,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">with three layers of cut stones and one of timber. The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The gold and silver articles of God's house that Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon must also be returned. They are to be brought to the temple in Jerusalem where they belong and put into the house of God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. You shall put them in the house of God.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore, you must stay away from that place, Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and your colleagues, the officials in the region.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Leave the construction of the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I hereby issue a decree concerning what you are to do, so that the elders of the Jews can rebuild the house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men out of the royal revenues from the taxes of the region west of the Euphrates River, so that the work will not stop.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Whatever is needed--young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of the heavens, or wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem--let it be given to them every day without fail,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">so that they can offer sacrifices of pleasing aroma to the God of the heavens and pray for the life of the king and his sons.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I also issue a decree concerning any man who interferes with this directive: Let a beam be torn from his house and raised up; he will be impaled on it, and his house will be made into a garbage dump because of this offense.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and his house shall be made a dunghill.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">May the God who caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who dares to harm or interfere with this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out diligently.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by decree of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the Israelites, including the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the dedication of God's house they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, and four hundred lambs, as well as twelve male goats as a sin offering for all Israel--one for each Israelite tribe.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They offered at the dedication of this house of God 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel 12 male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the book of Moses.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All of the priests and Levites were ceremonially clean, because they had purified themselves. They killed the Passover lamb for themselves, their priestly brothers, and all the exiles.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land in order to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful, having changed the Assyrian king's attitude toward them, so that he supported them in the work on the house of the God of Israel.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the LORD had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Christian Standard Bible. 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