1 Esdras 5:47–53

⁴⁷When the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were each in his own home, they gathered as one man in the square before the first gate toward the east. ⁴⁸Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, with his kinsmen, took their places and prepared the altar of the God of Israel, ⁴⁹to offer burnt offerings upon it, in accordance with the directions in the book of Moses the man of God. ⁵⁰And some joined them from the other peoples 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. ⁵¹They kept the feast of booths, as it is commanded in the law, and offered the proper sacrifices every day, ⁵²and thereafter the continual offerings and sacrifices on sabbaths and at new moons and at all the consecrated feasts. ⁵³And 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.