1 Esdras 5:55-57

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵⁵ and carts^[a] to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, to bring cedar logs from Lebanon and convey them in rafts to the harbour of Joppa, according to the decree that they had in writing from King Cyrus of the Persians.

The Foundations of the Temple Laid

⁵⁶ In the second year after their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with their kindred and the levitical priests and all who had come back to Jerusalem from exile; ⁵⁷ and they laid the foundation of the temple of God at the new moon of the second month in the second year after they came to Judea and Jerusalem.