Ezra 3:1-3

Common English Bible

Rebuilding the altar

3 When the seventh month^[a] came and the Israelites were in their towns, the people gathered together as one in Jerusalem. ² Then Jeshua, Jozadak’s son along with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel, Shealtiel’s son along with his kin, started to rebuild the altar of Israel’s God so that they might offer entirely burned offerings upon it as prescribed in the Instruction from Moses the man of God. ³ They set up the altar on its foundations,^[b] because they were afraid of the neighboring peoples,^[c] and they offered entirely burned offerings upon it to the Lord, both the morning and the evening offerings.