Ezra:3

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* And when the seventh month came , and the children of Israel were in the cities , the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem . * Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak , and his brethren the priests , and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel , and his brethren , and built the altar of the God of Israel , to offer up burnt-offerings on it , as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God . * And they set the altar on its base ; for fear was upon them because of the people of the countries ; and they offered up burnt-offerings on it to Jehovah , the morning and evening burnt-offerings . * And they held the feast of tabernacles as it is written , and [offered ] daily burnt-offerings by number , according to the ordinance , as the duty of every day required ; * and afterwards the continual burnt-offering , and those of the new moons , and of all the set feasts of Jehovah that were consecrated , and of every one that willingly offered a voluntary offering to Jehovah . * From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer up burnt-offerings to Jehovah . But the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not [yet ] laid . * And they gave money to the masons and to the carpenters ; and meat and drink and oil to the Zidonians and to the Tyrians , to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa , according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia . * And in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem , in the second month , began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel , and Jeshua the son of Jozadak , and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites , and all they that had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem ; and they appointed the Levites , from twenty years old and upward , to superintend the work of the house of Jehovah . * And Jeshua stood up , his sons and his brethren , Kadmiel and his sons , the sons of Judah , as one [man ], to superintend the workmen in the house of God ; [also ] the sons of Henadad , their sons and their brethren , the Levites . * And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah , they set the priests in their apparel , with trumpets , and the Levites the sons of Asaph , with cymbals , to praise Jehovah according to the directions of David king of Israel . * And they sang alternately together in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah : For he is good , for his loving-kindness [endureth ] for ever toward Israel . And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah , because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid . * But many of the priests and Levites and chief fathers , the ancient men that had seen the first house , wept with a loud voice , [when ] the foundation of this house was laid in their sight ; and many shouted aloud for joy . * And the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people ; for the people shouted with a great shout , and the noise was heard afar off .

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