Ezra:3

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* And when the seventh month had come , and the children of Israel were in the cities , the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem . * Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests , and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brethren , arose and built the altar of the God of Israel , to offer burnt offerings on it , as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God . * Though fear had come upon them because of the people of those countries , they set the altar on its bases ; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD , both the morning and evening burnt offerings . * They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles , as it is written , and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day . * Afterwards they offered the regular 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 . * From 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 . * They also gave money to the masons and the carpenters , and food , drink , and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea , to Joppa , according to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia . * Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem , Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel , Jeshua the son of Jozadak , and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites , and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem , began work and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the house of the LORD . * Then Jeshua with his sons and brothers , Kadmiel with his sons , and the sons of Judah , arose as one to oversee those working on the house of God : the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brethren the Levites . * When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD , the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets , and the Levites , the sons of Asaph , with cymbals , to praise the LORD , according to the ordinance of David king of Israel . * And they sang responsively , praising and giving thanks to the LORD : "For He is good , For His mercy endures forever toward Israel ." Then 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 the fathers ' houses , old men who had seen the first temple , wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this temple was laid before their eyes . Yet 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 sound was heard afar off .

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