Ezra 6:8–12

⁸“Moreover, ^aI issue a decree concerning what you shall do for those elders of Judah in the rebuilding of that house of God: the full cost is to be given to those people from the royal treasury out of the tribute of the provinces beyond the River, and that without negligence.

⁹“Whatever is needed, both young bulls, rams, and lambs for a burnt offering to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, according to what the priests in Jerusalem say, it is to be given to them daily without negligence,

¹⁰that they may bring sweet-smelling sacrifices near to the God of heaven and ^apray for the life of the king and his sons.

¹¹“And I issued a decree that ^aany man who violates this edict, a timber shall be pulled out from his house and he shall be impaled on it and ^bhis house shall be made a refuse heap on account of this.

¹²“May the God who ^ahas caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who ¹stretches out his hand to change it, so as to destroy that house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree, let it be done with all diligence!”