Ezra 6:13–22

¹³Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily. ¹⁴And ^othe elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of ^pCyrus, and ^qDarius, and ^rArtaxerxes king of Persia. ¹⁵And this house was finished on the third day of the month ^sAdar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. ¹⁶And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept ^tthe dedication of this house of God with joy, ¹⁷and offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and ^ufor a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁸And they set the priests in their ^xdivisions, and the Levites in their ^ycourses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; ^zas it is written in the book of Moses.

¹⁹And the children of the captivity kept the passover ^aupon the fourteenth day of the first month. ²⁰For the priests and the Levites were ^bpurified together, all of them were pure, and ^bkilled the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves. ²¹And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and ^call such as had separated themselves unto them from the ^dfilthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat, ²²and kept the feast of unleavened bread ^eseven days with joy: for the Lord had made them joyful, and ^fturned the heart of ^gthe king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

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