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                                      Ezra


                                    Chapter 3


  1. And when the seventh month was come, and the children of
     Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves
     together as one man to Jerusalem.

  2. Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren
     the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his
     brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to
     offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law
     of Moses the man of God.

  3. And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon
     them because of the people of those countries: and they
     offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt
     offerings morning and evening.

  4. They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written,
     and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according
     to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

  5. And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of
     the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that
     were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a
     freewill offering unto the LORD.

  6. From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer
     burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the
     temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

  7. They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters;
     and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to
     them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea
     of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king
     of Persia.

  8. Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God
     at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son
     of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant
     of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they
     that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and
     appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to
     set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

  9. Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel
     and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward
     the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with
     their sons and their brethren the Levites.

 10. And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of
     the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with
     trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to
     praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of
     Israel.

 11. And they sang together by course in praising and giving
     thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy
     endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted
     with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the
     foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

 12. But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the
     fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first
     house, when the foundation of this house was laid before
     their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud
     for joy:

 13. So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout
     of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the
     people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard
     afar off.