1 Esdras 5:46–52

Worship Begins Again

⁴⁶When the seventh month came and the Israelites were all in their own homes, they gathered with a single purpose in the square before the first gate toward the east.^{* 47}Then Jeshua son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, with his kinsmen, took their places and prepared the altar of the God of Israel,^{* 48}to offer burnt offerings upon it, in accordance with the directions in the book of Moses the man of God. ⁴⁹And some joined them from the other nations of the land. And they erected the altar in its place, for all the peoples of the land were hostile to them and were stronger than they, and they offered sacrifices at the proper times and burnt offerings to the Lord morning and evening.^{* 50}They kept the Festival of Booths,^t as it is commanded in the law, and offered the proper sacrifices every day^{* 51}and thereafter the regular offerings and sacrifices on Sabbaths and at new moons and at all the consecrated feasts. ⁵²And all who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God, from the new moon of the seventh month, though the temple of God was not yet built.