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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .