Ezra:3

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* And when the seventh month was come , and the children of Israel were in the cities , the people gathered themselves 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 builded the altar of the God of Israel , to offer burnt-offerings thereon , as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God . * And they set the altar upon its bases ; for fear was upon them because of the people of the countries , and they offered burnt - offerings thereon unto the LORD , even burnt-offerings morning and evening . * And they kept the feast of tabernacles , as it is written , and offered the daily burnt-offerings by number , according to the ordinance , as the duty of every day required ; * and afterward the continual burnt-offering , and the offerings of the new moons , and of all the appointed seasons of the LORD that were hallowed , and of every one that willingly offered a freewill-offering unto the LORD . * From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD ; but the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid . * They gave money also unto the hewers , and to the carpenters ; and food , and drink , and oil , unto them of Zidon , and to them of Tyre , to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea , unto Joppa , according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia . * Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem , in the second month , began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel , and Jeshua the son of Jozadak , and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites , and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem ; and appointed the Levites , from twenty years old and upward , to have the oversight of the work of the house of the LORD . * Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren , and Kadmiel and his sons , the sons of Judah , together , to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God ; the sons of Henadad also , with their sons and their brethren the Levites . * And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD , they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets , and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals , to praise the LORD , according to the direction of David king of Israel . * And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD : 'for He is good , for His mercy endureth for ever toward Israel .' And all the people shouted with a great shout , when they praised the LORD , because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid . * But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers ' houses , the old men that had seen the first house standing on its foundation , wept with a loud voice , when this house was before their eyes ; and many shouted aloud for joy ; * so that 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 loud shout , and the noise was heard afar off .

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