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Ezra 6:3

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6:3In the first year of his reign,3 King Cyrus gave orders concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:4 ‘Let the temple be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered. Let its foundations be set in place.5 Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety6 feet,7

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  1. 3 Aram “In the first year of Cyrus the king.”
  2. 4 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
  3. 5 Aram “raised”; or perhaps “retained” (so ; cf. ), referring to the original foundations of Solomon’s temple.
  4. 6 The reads “twenty cubits” here, a measurement probably derived from dimensions given elsewhere for Solomon’s temple. According to 1 Kgs 6:2 the dimensions of the Solomonic temple were as follows: length, 60 cubits; width, 20 cubits; height, 30 cubits. Since one would expect the dimensions cited in Ezra 6:3 to correspond to those of Solomon’s temple, it is odd that no dimension for length is provided. The has apparently harmonized the width dimension provided here (“twenty cubits”) to that given in 1 Kgs 6:2.
  5. 7 Aram “Its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:

Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem:

Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its original foundations be retained. Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety feet,

NLTNew Living Translation

“In the first year of King Cyrus’s reign, a decree was sent out concerning the Temple of God at Jerusalem.

“Let the Temple be rebuilt on the site where Jews used to offer their sacrifices, using the original foundations. Its height will be ninety feet, and its width will be ninety feet.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued forth a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem. Let the house be built, the place where sacrifices are offered and let its foundations be raised. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,

KJV 1900King James Version

In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;