1 Esdras 5:52-54

Common English Bible

⁵² All who made a solemn promise to God began to offer sacrifices to God, from the new moon of the seventh month,^[a] even though God’s temple wasn’t yet rebuilt. ⁵³ They gave money to the stonemasons and the carpenters, along with daily meals. They gave gifts^[b] to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, to deliver cedar logs from Lebanon and ferry them in rafts to the harbor of Joppa, according to the written orders they had from Persia’s King Cyrus.

⁵⁴ In the second month of the second year,^[c] after they came to God’s temple in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel, Shealtiel’s son, and Jeshua, Jozadak’s son, made a new start, together with their associates and the levitical priests and all who had returned to Jerusalem from captivity.