Ezra 3:1–7

Worship Restored at Jerusalem

3And when the ^aseventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. ²Then ¹Jeshua the son of ^bJozadak ²and his brethren the priests, ^cand Zerubbabel the son of ^dShealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is ^ewritten in the Law of Moses the man of God. ³Though fear had come upon them because of the people of those countries, they set the altar on its ³bases; and they offered ^fburnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening burnt offerings. ^4gThey also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, ^has it is written, and ⁱoffered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day. ⁵Afterwards they offered the ^jregular burnt offering, and those for New Moons and for all the appointed feasts of the Lord that were consecrated, and those of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to the Lord. ⁶From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, although the foundation of the temple of the Lord had not been laid. ⁷They also gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and ^kfood, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to ^lJoppa, ^maccording to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.