3By the seventh month, ^qthe Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people gathered together in Jerusalem. ^r²Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel ^sand his brothers began to build the altar of Israel’s God in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God. ^t³They set up the altar on its foundation and offered burnt offerings for the morning and evening on it to the Lord even though they feared the surrounding peoples. ^u⁴They celebrated the Festival of Booths as prescribed, and offered burnt offerings each day, based on the number specified by ordinance for each festival day. ^v⁵After that, they offered the regular burnt offering and the offerings for the beginning of each month ^w^xand for all the Lord’s appointed holy occasions, as well as the freewill offerings brought to ^ythe Lord.

⁶On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, ^zeven though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid. ⁷They gave money to the stonecutters and artisans, and gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they could bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, ^aaccording to the authorization given them by King Cyrus of Persia. ^b

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Footnotes

w3:5 for the new moons
y3:5 well as those of everyone making a freewill offering to

Cross references

q3:1 Lv 23:23–43; Nm 29:1–38
r3:1 Neh 7:73–8:1
s3:2 Ezr 3:8; 5:2; Hg 1:1; 2:21, 23
t3:2 Ex 27:1–8
u3:3 Ezr 4:4
v3:4 Lv 23:33–43; Nm 29:12–38; Neh 8:13–18; Zch 14:16
x3:5 Nm 28:11–14; 1Sm 20:5
z3:6 Lv 23:23–25; Nm 29:1–6
a3:7 1Kg 5:1–11; 2Ch 2:3–16
b3:7 Ezr 1:2; 6:3–5