Ezra 3 : 1 (LXXEN)
And the seventh month came on, and the children of Israel were in their cities, and the people assembled as one man at Jerusalem.
Ezra 3 : 2 (LXXEN)
Then stood up Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer upon it whole-burnt-offerings, according to the things that were written in the law of Moses the man of God.
Ezra 3 : 3 (LXXEN)
And they set up the altar on its place, for there was a terror upon them because of the people of the lands: and the whole-burnt-offerings was offered up upon it to the Lord morning and evening.
Ezra 3 : 4 (LXXEN)
And they kept the feast of tabernacles, according to that which was written, and offered whole-burnt-offerings daily in number according to the ordinance, the exact daily rate.
Ezra 3 : 5 (LXXEN)
And after this the perpetual whole-burnt-offering, and offering for the season of new moon, and for all the hallowed feasts to the Lord, and for every one that offered a free-will-offering to the Lord.
Ezra 3 : 6 (LXXEN)
On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord: but the foundation of the house of the Lord was not laid.
Ezra 3 : 7 (LXXEN)
And they gave money to the stone-hewers and carpenters, and *Gr. meats and drinks meat and drink, and oil, to the Sidonians, and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant of Cyrus king of the Persians to them.
Ezra 3 : 8 (LXXEN)
And in the second year of their coming to the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, over the workmen in the house of the Lord.
Ezra 3 : 9 (LXXEN)
And Jesus and his sons and his brethren stood, Cadmiel and his sons the sons of Juda, over them that wrought the works in the house of God: the sons of Enadad, their sons and their brethren the Levites.
Ezra 3 : 10 (LXXEN)
And they laid a foundation for building the house of the Lord: and the priests in their robes stood with trumpets and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the order of David king of Israel.
Ezra 3 : 11 (LXXEN)
And they answered each other with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, saying, For it is good, for his mercy to Israel endures for ever. And all the people shouted with a loud voice to praise the Lord at the laying the foundation of the house of the Lord.
Ezra 3 : 12 (LXXEN)
But many of the priests and the Levites, and the elder men, heads of families, who had seen the former house *These words probably belong to the latter clause on its foundation, and who saw this house with their eyes, wept with a loud voice: but the multitude shouted with joy to raise a song.
Ezra 3 : 13 (LXXEN)
And the people did not distinguish the voice of the glad shout *Or, because of from the voice of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud voice, and the voice was heard even from afar off.

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