Ezra 6:14–22

14 kSo the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the 5command of lCyrus, mDarius, and nArtaxerxes king of Persia. 15 Now the temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. 16 Then the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites and the rest of the descendants of the captivity, celebrated othe dedication of this 6house of God with joy. 17 And they poffered sacrifices at the dedication of this house of God, one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. 18 They assigned the priests to their qdivisions and the Levites to their rdivisions, over the service of God in Jerusalem, sas it is written in the Book of Moses.

The Passover Celebrated

19 7And the descendants of the captivity kept the Passover ton the fourteenth day of the first month. 20 For the priests and the Levites had upurified themselves; all of them were ritually clean. And they vslaughtered the Passover lambs for all the descendants of the captivity, for their brethren the priests, and for themselves. 21 Then the children of Israel who had returned from the captivity ate together with all who had separated themselves from the wfilth 8of the nations of the land in order to seek the Lord God of Israel. 22 And they kept the xFeast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy; for the Lord made them joyful, and yturned the heart zof the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.