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and afterward there was a (A)continual burnt offering, also (B)for the new moons and (C)for all the appointed times of Yahweh that were set apart as holy, and from everyone who offered a freewill offering to Yahweh. From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh, but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh had not been laid. Then they gave money to the masons and [a]carpenters, and (D)food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, (E)to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea at (F)Joppa, according to the permission they had [b]from (G)Cyrus king of Persia.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 3:7 Or craftsmen of wood, cf. 2 Sam 5:11
  2. Ezra 3:7 Lit of